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The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever

Author : Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299093648
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever written by Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semmelweis's exposure to the childbed fever was concurrent with his appointment to the Vienna maternity hospital in 1846. Like many similar hospitals and clinics in the major cities of nineteenth-century Europe and America, where death rates from the illness sometimes climbed as high as 40 percent of admitted patients, the Viennese wards were ravaged by the fever. Intensely troubled by the tragic and baffling loss of so many young mothers, Semmelweis sought answers. The Etiology was testimony to his success. Based on overwhelming personal evidence, it constituted a classic description of a disease, its causes, and its prevention. It also allowed a necessary response to the obstetrician's already vocal, rabid, and perhaps predictable critics. For Semmelweis's central thesis was a startling one - the fever, he correctly surmised, was caused not by epidemic or endemic influences but by unsterilized and thus often contaminated hands of the attending physicians themselves.

Genius Belabored

Author : Theodore G. Obenchain
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319298
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Genius Belabored written by Theodore G. Obenchain and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a nineteenth-century obstetrician ostracized for his strident advocacy of disinfection as a way to prevent childbed fever In Genius Belabored: Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis, Theodore G. Obenchain traces the life story of a nineteenth-century Hungarian obstetrician who was shunned and marginalized by the medical establishment for advancing a far-sighted but unorthodox solution to the appalling mortality rates that plagued new mothers of the day. In engrossing detail, Obenchain recreates for readers the sights, smells, and activities within a hospital of that day. In an era before the acceptance of modern germ science, physicians saw little need for cleanliness or hygiene. As a consequence, antiseptic measures were lax and rudimentary. Especially vulnerable to contamination were new mothers, who frequently contracted and died from childbed fever (puerperal fever). Genius Belabored follows Semmelweis’s awakening to the insight that many of these deaths could be avoided with basic antiseptic measures like hand washing. The medical establishment, intellectually unprepared for Semmelweis’s prescient hypothesis, rejected it for a number of reasons. It was unorthodox and went against the lingering Christian tradition that the dangers of childbirth were inherent to the lives of women. Complicating matters, colleagues did not consider Semmelweis an easy physician to work with. His peers described him as strange and eccentric. Obenchain offers an empathetic and insightful argument that Semmelweis suffered from bipolar disorder and illuminates how his colleagues, however dedicated to empirical science they might have been, misjudged Semmelweis’s methods based upon ignorance and their emotional discomfort with him. In Genius Belabored, Obenchain identifies Semmelweis’s rightful place in the pantheon of scientists and physicians whose discoveries have saved the lives of millions. Obenchain’s biography of Semmelweis offers unique insights into the practice of medicine and the mindsets of physicians working in the premodern era. This fascinating study offers much of interest to general readers as well as those interested in germ theory, the history of medicine and obstetrics, or anyone wishing to better understand the trajectory of modern medicine.

Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Sciences

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)

Author : Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039332625X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) written by Sherwin B. Nuland and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative of one of the key turning points in medical history.

Obstetric Care

Author : Martin Olsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108515665
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Obstetric Care written by Martin Olsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain a critical understanding of obstetrics, and a thorough knowledge base of modern management techniques, with this accessible textbook. While acting as a stand-alone text on obstetric care, this volume also forms part of a three-volume set - all authored by leading authorities - on the entirety of obstetric and gynecologic practice. Obstetric Care's topics are based on academic objectives of experts in the field. This textbook offers tailored support for new residents and experienced physicians alike. Obstetric Care is invaluable for wide-ranging yet concise reference material, and provides evidence based care recommendations for specific patient conditions. The chapters in this textbook are based on the objectives of the Committee for Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology; the book offers outstanding modern management techniques across the obstetrics specialty, making it a go-to for reference and comprehensive study.

Childbed Fever

Author : K. Codell Carter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313388385
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Childbed Fever written by K. Codell Carter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-05-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of women died each year from childbed fever. The Carters describe birthing conditions and medical practices in Vienna during the time when young Semmelweis began to work in a maternity clinic there. He discovered that childbed fever arose because medical personnel did not wash adequately after dissecting corpses before doing vaginal examinations of women in labor. After he required students to disinfect themselves, the mortality rate immediately dropped. However, Semmelweis's views were not accepted by the senior physicians who believed the disease was due to a variety of causes. After strident attempts to persuade skeptics, Semmelweis was committed to a Viennese insane asylum where he died at age 42, possibly from beatings by asylum guards. Childbed fever, now called puerperal infection, continues to be a leading cause of maternal mortality, in spite of the best efforts of modern physicians.

Getting It Right in Science and Medicine

Author : Hans R. Kricheldorf
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319303880
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Getting It Right in Science and Medicine written by Hans R. Kricheldorf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advocates the importance and value of errors for the progress of scientific research! Hans Kricheldorf explains that most of the great scientific achievements are based on an iterative process (an ‘innate self-healing mechanism’): errors are committed, being checked over and over again, through which finally new findings and knowledge can arise. New ideas are often first confronted with refusal. This is so not only in real life, but also in scientific and medical research. The author outlines in this book how great ideas had to ripen over time before winning recognition and being accepted. The book showcases in an entertaining way, but without schadenfreude, that even some of the most famous discoverers may appear in completely different light, when regarding errors they have committed in their work. This book is divided into two parts. The first part creates a fundament for the discussion and understanding by introducing important concepts, terms and definitions, such as (natural) sciences and scientific research, laws of nature, paradigm shift, and progress (in science). It compares natural sciences with other scientific disciplines, such as historical research or sociology, and examines the question if scientific research can generate knowledge of permanent validity. The second part contains a collection of famous fallacies and errors from medicine, biology, chemistry, physics and geology, and how they were corrected. Readers will be astonished and intrigued what meanders had to be explored in some cases before scientists realized facts, which are today’s standard and state-of-the-art of science and technology. This is an entertaining and amusing, but also highly informative book not only for scientists and specialists, but for everybody interested in science, research, their progress, and their history!

Doctors

Author : Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307807894
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Doctors written by Sherwin B. Nuland and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way. How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.

An Introduction to the history of medicine

Author : Fielding Hudson Garrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the history of medicine written by Fielding Hudson Garrison and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions

Author : David Grove
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199641021
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions written by David Grove and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary array of infectious agents affect humans, from worms and fungi to bacteria and prions. This compendium of the curious organisms that cause disease provides a fact-filled account of the nature of each organism, the ways in which they infect humans, and the human stories behind their discovery

Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Science Was Wrong

Author : Stanton T. Friedman
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601637314
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Science Was Wrong written by Stanton T. Friedman and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2010-06-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two months before the Wright brothers' historic flight at Kitty Hawk, a top scientist declared that "no possible combination of known substances, known forces of machinery and known forms of force can be united in a practical (flying) machine...." Germ theory was first advanced in ancient Sanskrit texts thousands of years ago, but wasn't widely accepted until late in the 19th century. Space travel was declared "utter bilge" in 1956 by the British astronomer Royal, one of a long line of scientists who "proved" it was impossible. Throughout history, it has been difficult, even impossible, to promote the acceptance of new discoveries. Yet during the last two centuries, there has been a veritable explosion of new cures, theories, techniques, and inventions that have revolutionized aviation, space travel, communications, medicine, and warfare. Most of them, of course, were deemed "impossible." Science Was Wrong is a fascinating collection of stories about the pioneers who created or thought up the "impossible" cures, theories, and inventions "they" said couldn't work. How many have suffered or died because cures weren't accepted? How many inventions have been quashed? How much progress was delayed or denied? You will end up shaking your head in disbelief and even disgust as you learn the answers.

The Medico-pharmaceutical Critic and Guide

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medico-pharmaceutical Critic and Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Childbed Fever

Author : K. Codell Carter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351529080
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Childbed Fever written by K. Codell Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and work of Ignaz Semmelweis is among the most engaging and moving stories in the history of science. Childbed Fever makes the Semmelweis story available to a general audience, while placing his life, and his discovery, in the context of his times. In 1846 Vienna, as what would now be called a head resident of obstetrics, Semmelweis confronted the terrible reality of childbed fever, which killed prodigious numbers of women throughout Europe and America. In May 1847 Semmelweis was struck by the realization that, in his clinic, these women had probably been infected by the decaying remains of human tissue. He believed that infection occurred because medical personnel did not wash their hands thoroughly after conducting autopsies in the morgue. He immediately began requiring everyone working in his clinic to wash their hands in a chlorine solution. The mortality rate fell to about one percent. While everyone at the time rejected his account of the cause of the disease because his theory was fundamentally inconsistent with existing medical beliefs about how diseases were transmitted, in time Semmelweis was proven to be correct. His work led to the adoption of a new way of thinking about disease, thus helping to create an entirely new theory - the etiological standpoint - that still dominates medicine today.

Germ Theory

Author : Robert P. Gaynes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 168367376X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Germ Theory written by Robert P. Gaynes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases, Second Edition From the ancient worlds of Hippocrates and Avicenna to the early 20th century hospitals of Paul Ehrlich and Lillian Wald to the modern-day laboratories of François Barré-Sinoussi and Barry Marshall, Germ Theory brings to life the inspiring stories of medical pioneers whose work helped change the very fabric of our understanding of how we think about and treat infectious diseases. In beautifully crafted narratives, author Robert Gaynes describes and presents compelling stories, including How Edward Jenner, the pioneer of vaccination, faced down scores of naysayers How a chance discovery led Louis Pasteur to the idea that the virulence of microbes can be altered How scientists in France, the Netherlands, and Denmark produced penicillin during World War 2 while keeping their efforts hidden from the Nazis The second edition features three new chapters based on interviews with Nobel Laureates François Barré-Sinoussi and Barry Marshall, and former NIAID Director and medical advisor to seven U.S. presidents Anthony Fauci, detailing fascinating accounts from their careers, including their groundbreaking work in the areas of HIV, peptic ulcers, and COVID-19, respectively. A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title winner, Germ Theory is required reading for anyone training or working in the field of infectious diseases or with an interest in microbes, the history of medicine, or how new discoveries can bring about paradigmatic shifts in thinking.

Phantom Plague

Author : Vidya Krishnan
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541768477
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Phantom Plague written by Vidya Krishnan and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard Public Health Magazine, Best Public Health Books and Journalism of 2022 The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world. It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others – rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body. In Phantom Plague, Vidya Krishnan, traces the history of tuberculosis from the slums of 19th-century New York to modern Mumbai. In a narrative spanning century, Krishnan shows how superstition and folk-remedies, made way for scientific understanding of TB, such that it was controlled and cured in the West. The cure was never available to black and brown nations. And the tuberculosis bacillus showed a remarkable ability to adapt – so that at the very moment it could have been extinguished as a threat to humanity, it found a way back, aided by authoritarian government, toxic kindness of philanthropists, science denialism and medical apartheid. Krishnan’s original reporting paints a granular portrait of the post-antibiotic era as a new, aggressive, drug resistant strain of TB takes over. Phantom Plague is an urgent, riveting and fascinating narrative that deftly exposes the weakest links in our battle against this ancient foe.

The Tragedy of Childbed Fever

Author : Irvine Loudon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191542288
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy of Childbed Fever written by Irvine Loudon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childbed fever was by the far the most common cause of deaths associated with childbirth up to the Second World War throughout Britain and Europe. Otherwise known as puerperal fever, it was an infection which followed childbirth and caused thousands of miserable and agonising deaths every year. This book provides the first comprehensive account of this tragic disease from its recognition in the eighteenth century up to the second half of the twentieth century. Examining this within a broad history of infective diseases, the author goes on to explore ideas from past debates about the nature of infectious diseases and contagion, the discovery of bacteria and antisepsis, and charts the complicated path which led to the discovery of antibiotics. The large majority of deaths from puerperal fever were due to one micro-organism known as Streptococcus pyogenes, and the last chapter presents valuable new ideas on the nature and epidemiology of streptococcal disease up to the present day.