His mother died of puerperal fever nine days after his birth, which he later described as " the first of my misfortunes ".
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This immediately reduced the incidence of fatal puerperal fever from about 10 % ( range 5 30 % ) to about 1 2 %.
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For puerperal fever, the dreaded strep infection that killed women after childbirth, the doctor had more than 40 treatment options, including blood-letting and chloroform.
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Iconoclast and advocate for women s health, he correctly described the infectious cause of Puerperal Fever ( now known to be Streptococcal post-partum infection ).
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A rough estimate is that about 250, 000 500, 000 died from puerperal fever in the 18th and 19th centuries in England and Wales alone.
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Colley George and Catherine died in infancy, and their mother died at the age of 26 just after the birth of Elizabeth from puerperal fever.
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He met with chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur, whose previous studies in germ theory had helped reduce the mortality rate of women suffering from puerperal fever.
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Arabella Elizabeth Tetley, a Beckwithshaw schoolmaster's wife, died of puerperal fever at age 23 years and was buried at Woodhouse Cemetery on Friday 17 April 1888.
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Puerperal fever is now rare in the West due to improved hygiene during delivery, and the few infections that do occur are usually treatable with antibiotics.
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In 1855, Holmes chose to republish the essay in the form of a pamphlet under the new title " Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence ".
