Sentence:  I must acknowledge, if Kolletschka&#39;s disease and the disease from which I saw so many <WSD>puerperae</WSD> die, are identical, then in the <WSD>puerperae</WSD> it must be produced by the self-same engendering cause, which produced it in Kolletschka. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A woman who has recently given birth.