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- Title
The cause and prevention of puerperal sepsis.
- Authors
Cook, G. C.
- Abstract
The article reports on the contenders to the attribution of the discovery of the cause and prevention of puerperal sepsis to Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis of Vienna, Austria. Alexander Gordon wrote about sepsis in his 1795 book "A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen." John Armstrong also wrote about it in his 1814 book "Facts and Observations Relative to the Fever Commonly Called Puerperal." The books were first published in London, England.
- Subjects
PUERPERAL septicemia; MEDICAL research; SEMMELWEIS, Ignac Fulop, 1818-1865; GORDON, Alexander; ARMSTRONG, John, 1784-1829; MEDICAL literature
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2000, Vol 93, Issue 5, p280
- ISSN
0141-0768
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/014107680009300529