Puerperal fever is a bacterial infection contracted during childbirth due to tearing and disruption of membranes and normal immune defenses.
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The couple had three children before Marie died of puerperal fever four days after giving birth to a stillborn daughter.
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Some of his medical writings, notably his 1843 essay regarding the contagiousness of puerperal fever, were considered innovative for their time.
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He initially expressed doubts in regards to theories of puerperal fever that were espoused by Ignaz Semmelweis ( 1818 1865 ).
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Cecilia died at the age of 36 from puerperal fever, a few days after giving birth to her third child Elimar.
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The university is named after Ign�c Semmelweis ( 1818-1865 ), the obstetrician who discovered the cause of puerperal fever in the 1840s.
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Semmelweis was severely troubled that his First Clinic had a much higher mortality rate due to puerperal fever than the Second Clinic.
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In 1845, Peddie was the first to recognise the contagious nature of puerperal fever and its intimate connection with erysipelas and phlebitic inflammation.
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The princess died at Schloss Abrechtesberg in 1888 at from the effects of puerperal fever and was buried in the Saxe-Altenburg family vault.
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If you want to find out what the standard treatment was, look up puerperal fever in a British obstetric textbook from the 1930s.
