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- Title
La investigación antigua de la fiebre puerperal: galimatías científico y objeto de reflexión.
- Authors
Volcy, Charles
- Abstract
This review concerns the first investigations about a prominent disease in the history of medicine, namely: the puerperal fever, murderess of women in labour between the XVII and XIX centuries. It addresses the controversy around the physiological nature and contagiousness of the disease, and analyzes from various perspectives the rejection to doctor Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, discoverer of its mode of transmission. Finally, it refers to the validation of his data and conclusions using modern statistical analyses as well as the philosophical interpretation of his model of discovery and inference.
- Subjects
PUERPERAL septicemia; DISINFECTION &; disinfectants; GERM theory of disease; HAND washing; IATROGENIC diseases; PARTURITION
- Publication
Iatreia, 2012, Vol 25, Issue 2, p174
- ISSN
0121-0793
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17533/udea.iatreia.11958