The first Birmingham maternity hospital was established in 1842 to reduce the number of women and children dying needlessly from puerperal fever and childbirth related infections.
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Semmelweis's main finding that all instances of puerperal fever could be traced back to only one single cause : lack of cleanliness was simply unacceptable.
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He made the connection between the autopsies and puerperal fever after a colleague, Jakob Kolletschka, died of septicaemia after accidentally cutting his hand while performing an autopsy.
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His mother died of puerperal fever when he was five years old and shortly thereafter his father was expelled from the Society of Friends for marrying a non-Quaker.
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He discovered the pathology of the puerperal fever and the pyogenic vibrio in the blood, and suggested using boric acid to kill these microorganisms before and after confinement.
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The name of the University honors Ign�c Semmelweis, a former professor of the Medical Faculty between 1855 and 1865, who discovered the cause and prevention of puerperal fever.
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The mortality rate from puerperal fever in the division fell from 18 % in May 1847 to less than 3 % in June November of the same year.
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Mortality rates reached very high levels in maternity institutions in the 1800s, sometimes climbing to 40 percent of birthgiving women ( see Historical mortality rates of puerperal fever ).
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This textbook was the first to present the theories of Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis ( 1818 1865 ) in regards to hygiene and prevention of the spread of puerperal fever.
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During his long professorship, he became an advocate for various medical reforms and notably posited the controversial idea that doctors were capable of carrying puerperal fever from patient to patient.
