Oliver Wendell Holmes wasn’t the only one who suspected ... wrote about the many women who died of puerperal fever shortly after giving birth. He believed that doctors went through “epidemics ...

The cause was, invariably, “childbed” or “puerperal” (from the Latin ... poet and author Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894), who was born on Aug. 29, 211 years ago.

The oldest of their three children, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., would be a Supreme Court Justice In 1843, Dr. Holmes's article on The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever appeared in The New England ...

She developed puerperal sepsis ... The physician and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes led the American campaign to stop the spread of the disease by getting doctors to wash their hands.

THE prevention of puerperal fever is one of the great victories of medicine. It is well recognized that the clear writing of Oliver Wendell Holmes 1 and the courageous exhortations of Semmelweis 2 ...

The judge cannot direct a verdict, it is true, and the jury has the power to bring in a verdict in the teeth of both law and facts Oliver ... puerperal fever from patient to patient. Holmes ...

A century ago when a patient died from puerperal infection, the physician (and doubtless the patient) was considered merely unlucky. Holmes, however, was not content to stomach this kind of ill luck.

The story of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is the ... The deaths from puerperal fever continued to distress Holmes. These mothers were young and strong. Why should they die? People said homeopathy ...

The old man was Dr. Oliver ... his Holmes of the Breakfast-Table is on Holmes as a forerunner of the moderns—the cool-headed doctor who not only wrote a medical classic on puerperal fever ...

There were only 27 states in the U.S. when Oliver Wendell Holmes ... than a storm of briefs. Dr. Holmes was noted professionally for his researches into puerperal fever. But he was famous as ...