The etiology, the concept and the prophylaxis of childbed fever
By: by Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis ; translated by Frank P. Murphy ; edited with commentary and translation of the Semmelweis "Open letters" by Sherwin B. Nuland and Ferenc A. Gyorgyey
Contributors: Nuland, Sherwin B.; Gyorgyey, Ferenc A.; Siebold, Eduard Caspar Jacob von, 1801-1861; Scanzoni, F. W. von (Friedrich Wilhelm), 1821-1891; Spaeth, Joseph, 1823-1896; Nuland, Sherwin B.
Publisher: The Classics of Medicine Library
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Birmingham [Ala.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 893
Subjects: Puerperal Infection
Notes: "The enigma of Semmelweis - an interpretation" by Sherwin P. Nuland: p. [xiii]-xlii.

Includes facsim. of The etiology, translated by Frank P. Murphy, originally published in Medical Classics, Baltimore, 1941.

The "Open letters" to Spaeth, Scanzoni, Siebold, and all Professors of Obstetrics: p. [775]-880.

"Biographical sketches of physicians referred to in the 'Open letters'": p. [881]-893.

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