Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers.

Series: Sources of Science, 19. 8vo. xxxii, [2], VI, 543, [1] pp. Original maroon gilt-stamped cloth. Ownership rubber-stamp on title of Franco Crainz. Very good. Originally issued in 1861. "Semmelweis, who earlier had shown puerperal fever to be a septicemia, strove to improve conditions in the lying-in wards of Vienna and Budapest. Misunderstood and maligned by many, he eventually published this book in support of his views on the etiology of puerperal sepsis. He had no literary style and his book is difficult reading; it had an overwhelming mass of badly-presented statistics. Sir W. J. Sinclair, his biographer, said of him that "if he could have written like Oliver Wendell Holmes, his 'Aetiology' would have conquered Europe in 12 months"." Garrison and Morton 6277. / Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician and scientist of German descent who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures and was described as the "saviour of mothers". His life ended tragically with a breakdown, institutionalized for mental a disorder. He died in the asylum on 13 August 1865.

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Publisher: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1966.

Year: 1966

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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