Thus, before chlorine washings, almost every patient whose period dilation was extended died of childbed fever ."
12.
Much of these maternal deaths were due to Puerperal fever, at the time commonly known as childbed fever.
13.
In a textbook, Braun identified 30 causes of childbed fever; only the 28th of these was cadaverous infection.
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The cause was invariably childbed fever.
15.
During 1851 1855, only eight patients died from childbed fever out of 933 births ( 0.85 % ).
16.
According to his biography, rampant epidemics of childbed fever at the Copenhagen maternity institution tested his ingenuity and determination.
17.
His investigation discovered that washing hands with an antiseptic solution before a delivery reduced childbed fever fatalities by 90 %.
18.
Catherine died six days later, on 5 September 1548, at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, from what is thought to be childbed fever.
19.
Jakob Kolletschka is mostly known for his death which eventually led Ignaz Semmelweis to his discovery of the etiology of childbed fever.
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Some of Semmelweis's first critics even responded that he had said nothing new-it had long been known that cadaveric contamination could cause childbed fever.
