childbed

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This is what happened in the women's hospitals of the 19th century, when doctors spread puerperal or "childbed" fever from one postpartum woman to another.

From Salon

Once handwashing protocols were implemented in the Austrian hospital, the rates of women dying from childbed fever plummeted.

From Scientific American

In a lecture in 1850 at Vienna General Hospital, Semmelweis urged his colleagues to wash their hands before examining women about to deliver babies to help prevent the deadly malady known as “childbed” fever.

From Scientific American

Yet beyond childbed the regular duties of a medieval queen lay elsewhere: in embodying specifically female virtues such as temperance, charity, modesty, compassion and kindness, evinced through good works and intercession with their husbands.

From Washington Post

It lowered the cases of childbed fever to one tenth the original amount.

From Salon