Semmelweis seeks to demonstrate that the advent of pathological anatomy, and consequently the increase in autopsies, is correlated to the incidence of childbed fever.
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In fact, Semmelweis was warning against all decaying organic matter, not just against a specific contagion that originated from victims of childbed fever themselves.
23.
Most of the objections from Semmelweis's critics stemmed from his claim, that "'every case "'of childbed fever was caused by resorption of cadaveric particles.
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Before he became a U . S . Supreme Court Justice, Dr . Oliver Wendell Holmes advocated hand-washing in the mid-1800s to minimize childbed fever.
25.
She was compiling a cooking dictionary and writing a book on needlework when she died of childbed fever after the birth of her fourth child.
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His investigation discovered that washing hands with an antiseptic, in this case a calcium chloride solution, before a delivery reduced childbed fever fatalities by 90 %.
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Semmelweis also scorned Schmidt of underreporting deaths from childbed fever : From 1844-1852 there were only 13 deaths out of 2, 631 patients at the Charit?
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But his joy is short-lived when Jane falls sick and dies from childbed fever a few days later, leaving Henry in a deep state of depression.
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They could not accept his ideas of " minuscule and largely invisible amounts of decaying organic matter " as a cause of every case of childbed fever.
30.
In a textbook, Carl Braun, Semmelweis's successor as assistant in the first clinic, identified 30 causes of childbed fever; only the 28th of these was cadaverous infection.
