In the 1800s Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that women giving birth at home had a much lower incidence of childbed fever than those giving birth in the doctor's maternity ward.
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In the 1800s, up to 25 percent of European and American women who gave birth in hospitals died of " childbed fever, " later linked to the streptococcus pyogenes bacterium.
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In the 1800s Dr . Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that women giving birth at home had a much lower incidence of childbed fever than those giving birth by physicians in lying-hospitals.
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Medical students and their professors at the elite teaching hospitals of Semmelweis'era typically began their day performing autopsies on the women who had died the day before of childbed fever.
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Meanwhile, in Germany, Theodor Schwann led researches on clean their hands before attending childbirth, dramatically cut new mothers'death rate due to childbed fever, yet his principles were marginalized and attacked by professional peers.
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Childbed fever was rampant at the clinic; at a visit in 1850, just after returning to Pest, Semmelweis found one fresh corpse, another patient in severe agony, and four others seriously ill with the disease.
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More than 150 years ago a Hungarian physician, Dr . Ignaz Semmelweis, discovered that " childbed fever, " the infection that routinely killed women who had just given birth, was being spread on his colleagues'bacteria-laden hands.
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Soon after being appointed to run the first division of the obstetrics service at the Vienna General Hospital in 1846, Semmelweis became obsessed by the childbed fever epidemics that were killing nearly a third of his patients.
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Upon arrival, Anne hears of the fates of Henry's previous wives : Catherine of Aragon ( divorced ), Anne Boleyn ( beheaded ), and lastly, Jane Seymour ( who died of childbed fever after giving birth to Prince Edward ).
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However, after landing in Buenos Aires his wife came down with childbed fever on the trip across country, and he decided not to continue to Chile, instead starting a study of the local flora, which at that time was largely unresearched.
