Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1489

CHARLES DELUCENA MEIGS (1792-1869) The history, pathology, and treatment of puerperal fever and crural phlebitis. Ed. Barrington & Geo. D. Haswell 1842 338 pp. 22.4 cm.

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Meigs assembled the four reprints in this collection and also prepared the lengthy introductory essay. "A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever of Aberdeen" by Alexander Gordon (1752-1799) is of special significance. The essay represents the earliest known suggestion that puerperal fever was carried by the attending physicians and midwives. Gordon wrote the work in 1795, more than fifty years before Holmes (see No. 1744) and Semmelweis (see No. 1851) brought the problem to the attention of their contemporaries.

See Related Record(s): 1744 1851