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Postpartum infections

Index Postpartum infections

Postpartum infections, also known as childbed fever and puerperal fever, are any bacterial infections of the female reproductive tract following childbirth or miscarriage. [1]

162 relations: Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Adeline Yen Mah, Afrosinya, Alexander Peddie, Ali Kemal, Anatomy, Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke, Antoine Germain Labarraque, Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, Asepsis, Ashley Moffett, August Breisky, Barbara Zápolya, Bernhard Sigmund Schultze, Bibi Ka Maqbara, Blood culture, Boston Society for Medical Improvement, Carl Edvard Marius Levy, Carl Emil Pettersson, Carl Mayrhofer, Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, Catherine de' Medici, Catherine Parr, Cecilia Beaux, Cephalotribe, Charles Delucena Meigs, Charles Yerkes, Charles, Count of Soissons, Childbirth, Chlorine, Christiane of Saxe-Merseburg, Christoph Probst, Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw, Clematis gouriana, Complication (medicine), Complications of pregnancy, Contemporary reaction to Ignaz Semmelweis, Cranioclast, Desco da parto, Dilras Banu Begum, Dora Colebrook, Eduard Lumpe, Elizabeth Fulhame, Elizabeth Monroe, Emily Coleman, Empress Wanrong, Endometritis, Eugène Marais, Ferdinand Karewski, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, ..., Florence R. Sabin, Francis Browne, Frederick Griffith, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Frieda Fraser, Georg Ernst Stahl, George Moore (physician), George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, Germ theory of disease, Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien, Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, Granville Stuart, Group A streptococcal infection, Gustav Adolf Michaelis, Gustavus Murray, Harry Paddon, Henry Darger, Hester Stanhope, Viscountess Mahon, Historical mortality rates of puerperal fever, History of England, History of medicine, History of science, Honora Sneyd, Hospital-acquired infection, House of Tudor, Human–animal breastfeeding, Hypertensive disease of pregnancy, Hypopituitarism, ICD-10 Chapter XV: Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, Ida Nettleship, Ignaz Semmelweis, Infectious Disease (Notification) Act 1889, Irvine Loudon, Isabella Beeton, Isabella II of Jerusalem, Jakob Kolletschka, Jane Seymour, Jean Heiberg, Jean Webster, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joanna Kavenna, Johann Baptist Chiari, Johann Peter Frank, John Barlow (veterinary scientist), John Brenan (physician), John Miers (botanist), Joseph DeLee, Joseph Hermann Schmidt, Juliane Reichardt, Kenneth Grahame, Koweta Mission Site, Leonard Colebrook, List of complications of pregnancy, List of diseases (P), List of MeSH codes (C01), List of MeSH codes (C13), List of Old Guildfordians (Royal Grammar School, Guildford), Louis Pasteur, Louisa May Alcott, María Teresa Ferrari, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Maria of Montferrat, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maternal death, Max Runge, Metritis, Miasma theory, Norbert Casteret, Norton Hall, Obstetrics, Obstructed labour, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Outline of emergency medicine, Outline of medicine, Pathogenic bacteria, Placenta praevia, Postpartum period, Postpartum physiological changes, Pregnancy, Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine, Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807–1844), Princess Marie of Baden (1782–1808), Princess Marie of Prussia (1855–1888), Prontosil, Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013, Puerperal (disambiguation), Puerperal disorder, Quackery, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, Richard Burton, Robert Frost, Royal College of Midwives, Semmelweis reflex, Semmelweis University, Septic pelvic thrombophlebitis, Shashthi, Signor Lawanda, St Mary's Hospital, London, Susannah Lattin, Sylvia Dubois, The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, The Cry and the Covenant, The Far Pavilions, The Story of Louis Pasteur, The Wind in the Willows, Timeline of medicine and medical technology, UK statutory notification system, Whitlock Nicoll, William Brownrigg, 1843 in science, 1847 in science. Expand index (112 more) »

Abigail May Alcott Nieriker

(Abigail) May Alcott Nieriker (July 26, 1840 – December 29, 1879) was an American artist and the youngest sister of Louisa May Alcott.

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Adeline Yen Mah

Adeline Yen Mah is a Chinese-American author and physician.

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Afrosinya

Yefrosinya Fedorova (also Euphrosyne, Afrosinya, Afrosina, Ofrosinya; 1699/1700 – 1748), was a Russian serf.

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Alexander Peddie

Alexander Peddie FRSE FRCPE LLD (1810-1907) was a Scottish physician and author.

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Ali Kemal

Ali Kemal Bey (1867 – 6 November 1922) was an Ottoman journalist, newspaper editor, poet and a politician of liberal signature, who was for some three months Minister of the Interior in the government of Damat Ferid Pasha, the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.

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Anatomy

Anatomy (Greek anatomē, “dissection”) is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts.

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Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke

Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Baroness Herbert of Cardiff (15 June 1515 – 20 February 1552) was lady-in-waiting to each of Henry VIII of England's six wives.

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Antoine Germain Labarraque

Antoine-Germain Labarraque (28 March 1777 – 9 December 1850)Maurice Bouvet.

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Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary

Joseph Anton Johann, Archduke of Austria (9 March 1776, Florence – 13 January 1847, Buda), was the Palatine of Hungary from 1796 to 1847.

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Asepsis

Asepsis is the state of being free from disease-causing micro-organisms (such as pathogenic bacteria, viruses, pathogenic fungi, and parasites).

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Ashley Moffett

Ashley Moffett, also Ashley King, is a Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge specialising in Reproductive Immunology, and a fellow of King's College.

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August Breisky

Professor August Breisky (25 March 1832, Klattau (Klatovy), Bohemia (now Czech Republic) – 25 May 1889) was an Austrian gynecologist and obstetrician.

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Barbara Zápolya

Barbara Zápolya (1495–1515) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the first wife of King Sigismund I the Old.

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Bernhard Sigmund Schultze

Bernhard Sigmund Schultze; sometimes spelled Bernhard Sigismund Schultze (December 29, 1827 – April 17, 1919) was a German obstetrician and gynecologist born in Freiburg im Breisgau.

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Bibi Ka Maqbara

The Bibi Ka Maqbara (English:"Tomb of the Lady") is a tomb located in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.

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Blood culture

Blood culture is a microbiological culture of blood.

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Boston Society for Medical Improvement

The Boston Society for Medical Improvement was an elite society of Boston physicians, established in 1828 for "the cultivation of confidence and good feeling between members of the profession; the eliciting and imparting of information upon the different branches of medical science; and the establishment of a Museum and Library of Pathological Anatomy".

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Carl Edvard Marius Levy

Carl Edvard Marius Levy (September 10, 1808 – December 30, 1865) was professor and head of the Danish Maternity institution in Copenhagen (Fødsels- og Plejestiftelsen).

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Carl Emil Pettersson

Carl Emil Pettersson (4 or 23 October, 1875 – 12 May 1937) was a Swedish sailor who became king of Tabar Island in Papua New Guinea after he was shipwrecked in 1904.

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Carl Mayrhofer

Carl Mayrhofer (June 2, 1837 in Austria – June 3, 1882 in Franzensbad, Bohemia) was a physician conducting work on the role of germs in childbed fever.

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Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk

Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, suo jure 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (22 March 1519 – 19 September 1580), was an English noblewoman living at the courts of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I. She was the fourth wife of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, who acted as her legal guardian during his third marriage to Henry VIII's sister Mary.

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Catherine de' Medici

Catherine de Medici (Italian: Caterina de Medici,; French: Catherine de Médicis,; 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589), daughter of Lorenzo II de' Medici and Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne, was an Italian noblewoman who was queen of France from 1547 until 1559, by marriage to King Henry II.

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Catherine Parr

Catherine Parr (alternatively spelled Katherine, Katheryn or Katharine, signed 'Katheryn the Quene KP') was Queen of England and Ireland (1543–47) as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII, and the final queen consort of the House of Tudor.

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Cecilia Beaux

Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942) was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent.

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Cephalotribe

A cephalotribe was a medical instrument used in obstetrics to crush the skull of stillborn fetuses (cephalotripsy).

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Charles Delucena Meigs

Charles Delucena Meigs (February 19, 1792 – June 22, 1869) was an American obstetrician of the nineteenth century who is remembered for his opposition to obstetrical anesthesia and to the idea that physicians' hands could transmit disease to their patients.

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Charles Yerkes

Charles Tyson Yerkes (June 25, 1837 – December 29, 1905) was an American financier.

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Charles, Count of Soissons

Charles de Bourbon (3 November 1566 – 1 November 1612) was a French prince du sang and military commander during the struggles over religion and the throne in late 16th century France.

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Childbirth

Childbirth, also known as labour and delivery, is the ending of a pregnancy by one or more babies leaving a woman's uterus by vaginal passage or C-section.

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Chlorine

Chlorine is a chemical element with symbol Cl and atomic number 17.

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Christiane of Saxe-Merseburg

Christiane of Saxe-Merseburg (1 June 1659 – 13 March 1679), was a German noblewoman member of the House of Wettin and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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Christoph Probst

Christoph Hermann Probst (born 6 November 1919, Murnau am Staffelsee – 22 February 1943, Munich) was a German student of medicine and member of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group.

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Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw

The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw, North Yorkshire, England, also known as Beckwithshaw Church, is an Anglican church built and furnished between 1886 and 1887 by William Swinden Barber in the Gothic Revival style as part of the Arts and Crafts movement.

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Clematis gouriana

Clematis gouriana, or Indian Traveller's Joy, is a liana found in Asia which belongs to the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae).

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Complication (medicine)

Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution or consequence of a disease, a health condition or a therapy.

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Complications of pregnancy

Complications of pregnancy are health problems that are caused by pregnancy.

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Contemporary reaction to Ignaz Semmelweis

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Cranioclast

A cranioclast (from Greek κρανίον kranion "head, scull" and -κλάστης -klastes "breaker") is surgical instrument akin to a strong forceps.

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Desco da parto

A painted desco da parto (a birth tray or birth salver) was an important symbolic gift on the occasion of a successful birth in late medieval and Early Modern Florence and Siena.

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Dilras Banu Begum

Dilras Banu Begum (1622 – 8 October 1657) was the first wife and chief consort of Emperor Aurangzeb, the last of the great Mughal emperors.

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Dora Colebrook

Dora Challis Colebrook (1884-1965) was a doctor and bacteriologist.

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Eduard Lumpe

Eduard Lumpe (1813–1876) was an obstetrician working in Vienna General Hospital as assistant to professor Johann Klein.

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Elizabeth Fulhame

Elizabeth Fulhame (fl. 1794) was a Scottish chemist who invented the concept of catalysis and discovered photoreduction.

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Elizabeth Monroe

Elizabeth Kortright Monroe (June 30, 1768 – September 23, 1830) was the First Lady of the United States from 1817 to 1825, as the wife of James Monroe, President of the United States.

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Emily Coleman

Emily Coleman (1899–1974) was an American born writer, and a lifelong compulsive diary keeper.

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Empress Wanrong

Wanrong (13 November 1906 – 20 June 1946), posthumously known as Empress Xiaokemin, was the Empress Consort of Puyi, the Last Emperor of China and final ruler of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty.

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Endometritis

Endometritis is inflammation of the endometrium, the inner lining of the uterus.

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Eugène Marais

Eugène Nielen Marais (9 January 1871 – 29 March 1936) was a South African lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer.

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Ferdinand Karewski

Ferdinand Karewski (November 5, 1858 – October 31, 1923) was a German surgeon born in Stettin.

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Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra

Ferdinand Karl Franz Schwarzmann, Ritter von Hebra (7 September 1816, in Brno, Moravia – 5 August 1880 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary) was an Austrian physician and dermatologist known as the founder of the New Vienna School of Dermatology, an important group of physicians who established the foundations of modern dermatology.

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Florence R. Sabin

Florence Rena Sabin (November 9, 1871 – October 3, 1953) was an American medical scientist.

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Francis Browne

The Reverend Francis Patrick Mary Browne, SJ, MC and Bar, Croix de Guerre by EE O'Donnell SJ, The Irish Catholic, 7 August 2014.

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Frederick Griffith

Frederick Griffith was a British bacteriologist whose focus was the epidemiology and pathology of bacterial pneumonia.

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Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Friedrich Wilhelm; 9 October 1771 – 16 June 1815) was a German prince and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Oels.

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Frieda Fraser

Frieda Fraser (30 August 1899 – 29 July 1994) was a Canadian physician, scientist and academic who worked in infectious disease, including research on scarlet fever and tuberculosis.

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Georg Ernst Stahl

Georg Ernst Stahl (22 October 1659 – 24 May 1734) was a German chemist, physician and philosopher.

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George Moore (physician)

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George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence

George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Warwick (21 October 144918 February 1478) was the third surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of English Kings Edward IV and Richard III.

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Germ theory of disease

The germ theory of disease is the currently accepted scientific theory of disease.

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Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien

Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien (College of Physicians in Vienna) is a medical society with a long-standing tradition in Austria.

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Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia

Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, (Александра Павловна: 9 August 1783 at Saint Petersburg – 16 March 1801 in Buda) was a daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia and sister of Emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I. She married Archduke Joseph of Austria, Governor of Hungary.) Her marriage was the only Romanov-Habsburg marital alliance that ever occurred.

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Granville Stuart

Granville Stuart (August 27, 1834 – October 2, 1918) was a pioneer, gold prospector, businessman, civic leader, vigilante, author, cattleman and diplomat who played a prominent role in the early history of Montana Territory and the state of Montana.

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Group A streptococcal infection

A group A streptococcal infection is an infection with group A streptococcus (GAS).

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Gustav Adolf Michaelis

Gustav Adolf Michaelis (9 July 1798 – 8 August 1848) was a German obstetrician who was a native of Kiel.

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Gustavus Murray

Gustavus Charles Philip Murray (1831 – 7 August 1887) was a British obstetrician who may have been the inspiration for Luke Fildes' 1891 painting The Doctor.

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Harry Paddon

Henry Locke Paddon, known as Harry Paddon (1881–1939) was a British physician and medical missionary in Canada.

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Henry Darger

Henry Joseph Darger Jr. (c. April 12, 1892 – April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a hospital custodian in Chicago, Illinois.

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Hester Stanhope, Viscountess Mahon

Hester Stanhope, Viscountess Mahon (19 October 1755 – 20 July 1780), formerly Lady Hester Pitt, was the wife of Charles Stanhope, Viscount Mahon, later the 3rd Earl Stanhope.

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Historical mortality rates of puerperal fever

Historically, puerperal fever was a devastating disease.

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History of England

England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk has revealed.

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History of medicine

The history of medicine shows how societies have changed in their approach to illness and disease from ancient times to the present.

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History of science

The history of science is the study of the development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural and social sciences.

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Honora Sneyd

Honora Edgeworth (née Sneyd; 1751 – 1 May 1780) was an eighteenth-century English writer, mainly known for her associations with literary figures of the day particularly Anna Seward and the Lunar Society, and for her work on children's education.

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Hospital-acquired infection

A hospital-acquired infection (HAI), also known as a nosocomial infection, is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other health care facility.

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House of Tudor

The House of Tudor was an English royal house of Welsh origin, descended in the male line from the Tudors of Penmynydd.

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Human–animal breastfeeding

Human–animal breastfeeding has been practiced in many different cultures in many time periods.

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Hypertensive disease of pregnancy

Hypertensive disease of pregnancy, also known as maternal hypertensive disorder, is a group of diseases that includes preeclampsia, eclampsia, gestational hypertension, and chronic hypertension.

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Hypopituitarism

Hypopituitarism is the decreased (hypo) secretion of one or more of the eight hormones normally produced by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain.

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ICD-10 Chapter XV: Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

ICD-10 is an international statistical classification used in health care and related industries.

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Ida Nettleship

Ida Margaret Nettleship (24 January 1877 – 14 March 1907) was an English artist who is best known as the first wife of artist Augustus John.

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Ignaz Semmelweis

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp; 1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian physician of ethnic-German ancestry, now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures.

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Infectious Disease (Notification) Act 1889

The Infectious Disease (Notification) Act first appeared on the UK national statute books in 1889.

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Irvine Loudon

Irvine Loudon (1 August 1924 – 7 January 2015) was a British doctor and a medical historian on childbirth fever and maternal mortality.

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Isabella Beeton

Isabella Mary Beeton (Mayson; 14 March 1836 – 6 February 1865), also known as Mrs Beeton, was an English journalist, editor and writer.

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Isabella II of Jerusalem

Isabella II (121225 April 1228) also known as Yolande of Brienne, was a princess of French origin who became monarch of Jerusalem.

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Jakob Kolletschka

Jakob Kolletschka (4 July 1803, Biela (now Luže), Bohemia – 13 March 1847, Vienna) was Professor of Forensic Medicine at Vienna General Hospital in Austria.

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Jane Seymour

Jane Seymour (c. 150824 October 1537) was Queen of England from 1536 to 1537 as the third wife of King Henry VIII.

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Jean Heiberg

Jean Hjalmar Dahl Heiberg (19 December 1884 – 27 May 1976) was a Norwegian painter, sculptor, designer and art professor.

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Jean Webster

Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster, July 24, 1876 – June 11, 1916) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.

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Joanna Kavenna

Joanna Kavenna is a British novelist, essayist and travel writer.

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Johann Baptist Chiari

Johann Baptist Chiari (June 15, 1817 – December 11, 1854) was an Austrian gynecologist and obstetrician born in Salzburg.

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Johann Peter Frank

Johann Peter Frank (19 March 1745 – 24 April 1821) was a German physician and hygienist who was a native of Rodalben.

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John Barlow (veterinary scientist)

John Barlow (1815–1856) is best known as a pioneer of veterinary studies and professor at Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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John Brenan (physician)

John Brenan (c.1768–1830) was an Irish physician.

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John Miers (botanist)

John Miers, FRS FLS (25 August 1789 – 17 October 1879. Kensington), knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina.

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Joseph DeLee

Joseph Bolivar DeLee (October 28, 1869 – April 2, 1942)"Joseph Bolivar DeLee." Dictionary of American Biography.

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Joseph Hermann Schmidt

Joseph Hermann Schmidt (14 June 1804 – 15 May 1852) was professor of obstetrics in Berlin, and official of the Prussian cultural ministry.

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Juliane Reichardt

Juliane Reichardt (14 May 1752 – 9 or 11 May 1783) was a Bohemian pianist, singer and composer.

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Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature.

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Koweta Mission Site

Koweta Mission Site is a site listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Leonard Colebrook

Leonard Colebrook FRS (–) was an English physician and bacteriologist.

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List of complications of pregnancy

Obstetric complications are those complications that develop during pregnancy.

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List of diseases (P)

This is a list of diseases starting with the letter "P".

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List of MeSH codes (C01)

The following is a list of the "C" codes for MeSH.

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List of MeSH codes (C13)

The following is a list of the "C" codes for MeSH.

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List of Old Guildfordians (Royal Grammar School, Guildford)

The Royal Grammar School (originally "The Free School") is a selective English independent day school for boys in Guildford, Surrey.

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Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.

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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).

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María Teresa Ferrari

María Teresa Ferrari (11 October 1887 – 30 October 1956) was an Argentine educator, medical doctor, and women's rights activist.

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Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen

Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (Maria Christina Johanna Josepha Antonia; 13 May 1742 – 24 June 1798), was the fifth child of Maria Theresa of Austria and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Maria of Montferrat

Maria of Montferrat (or Maria of Jerusalem) (1192–1212) was Queen of Jerusalem, the daughter of Isabella I of Jerusalem and Conrad of Montferrat.

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Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ''Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818).

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.

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Maternal death

Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes." There are two performance indicators that are sometimes used interchangeably: maternal mortality ratio and maternal mortality rate, which confusingly both are abbreviated "MMR".

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Max Runge

Heinrich Max Runge (21 September 1849 in Stettin – 27 July 1909 in Göttingen) was a German obstetrician and gynecologist.

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Metritis

Metritis is inflammation of the wall of the uterus, whereas endometritis is inflammation of the functional lining of the uterus, called the endometrium The term pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is often used for metritis.

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Miasma theory

The miasma theory (also called the miasmatic theory) is an obsolete medical theory that held that diseases—such as cholera, chlamydia, or the Black Death—were caused by a miasma (μίασμα, ancient Greek: "pollution"), a noxious form of "bad air", also known as night air.

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Norbert Casteret

Norbert Casteret (19 August 1897 – 20 July 1987) was a famous French caver, adventurer and writer, and is one of the most recognisable names in caving worldwide.

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Norton Hall

Norton Hall is an English country house situated on Norton Church Road in the suburb of Norton in Sheffield, England.

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Obstetrics

Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.

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Obstructed labour

Obstructed labour, also known as labour dystocia, is when, even though the uterus is contracting normally, the baby does not exit the pelvis during childbirth due to being physically blocked.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston.

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Outline of emergency medicine

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to emergency medicine: Emergency medicine – medical specialty involving care for undifferentiated, unscheduled patients with acute illnesses or injuries that require immediate medical attention.

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Outline of medicine

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to medicine: Medicine – science of healing.

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Pathogenic bacteria

Pathogenic bacteria are bacteria that can cause disease.

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Placenta praevia

Placenta praevia is when the placenta attaches inside the uterus but near or over the cervical opening.

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Postpartum period

A postpartum (or postnatal) period begins immediately after the birth of a child as the mother's body, including hormone levels and uterus size, returns to a non-pregnant state.

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Postpartum physiological changes

The postpartum physiological changes are those expected changes that occur to the woman's body after childbirth.

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Pregnancy

Pregnancy, also known as gestation, is the time during which one or more offspring develops inside a woman.

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Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine

Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine (Prinzessin Anna von Hessen und bei Rhein; 25 May 1843 – 16 April 1865) was the consort and second wife of Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807–1844)

Cecilia of Sweden (22 June 1807 in Stockholm – 27 January 1844 in Oldenburg) was a composer, a Swedish princess by birth, and Grand Duchess of Oldenburg by marriage.

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Princess Marie of Baden (1782–1808)

Marie of Baden (Marie Elisabeth Wilhelmine; 7 September 1782 – 20 April 1808) was a Duchess consort of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Brunswick-Oels.

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Princess Marie of Prussia (1855–1888)

Princess Marie of Prussia (Marie Elisabeth Louise Frederika of Prussia; 14 September 1855, Marmorpalais, Potsdam – 20 June 1888, Dresden), was a princess of the House of Hohenzollern.

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Prontosil

Prontosil is an antibacterial drug discovered in 1932 by a research team at the Bayer Laboratories of the IG Farben conglomerate in Germany.

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Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013

The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 (An tAcht um Chosaint na Beatha le linn Toirchis 2013; Act No.35 of 2013; previously Bill No.66 of 2013) is an Act of the Oireachtas which defined the circumstances and processes within which abortion in Ireland could be legally performed.

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Puerperal (disambiguation)

Puerperal may refer to.

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Puerperal disorder

A puerperal disorder or postpartum disorder is a disorder which presents primarily during the puerperium, or postpartum period.

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Quackery

Quackery or health fraud is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices.

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Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital

Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital is one of the oldest maternity hospitals in Europe, founded in 1739 in London.

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Richard Burton

Richard Burton, CBE (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 19255 August 1984) was a Welsh actor.

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Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet.

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Royal College of Midwives

The Royal College of Midwives is a British midwives organisation founded in 1881 by Louisa Hubbard and Zepherina Veitch.

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Semmelweis reflex

The Semmelweis reflex or "Semmelweis effect" is a metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms.

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Semmelweis University

Semmelweis University (Semmelweis Egyetem) is the oldest medical school in Hungary, founded in 1769.

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Septic pelvic thrombophlebitis

Septic pelvic thrombophlebitis (SPT) is a postpartum complication which consists of a persistent postpartum fever that is not responsive to broad-spectrum antibiotics in which pelvic infection leads to infection of the vein wall and intimal damage leading to thrombogenesis in the ovarian veins (left or right, although right is more common due to dextroversion of the uterus).

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Shashthi

Shashthi or Shashti (षष्ठी,, literally "sixth") is a Hindu folk goddess, venerated as the benefactor and protector of children (especially, as the giver of male child).

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Signor Lawanda

Signor Lawanda (August 7, 1849 - 14 November 1934) born Hugh David Evans, was a nineteenth-century circus performer and strongman renowned for his strength.

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St Mary's Hospital, London

St Mary's Hospital is an NHS hospital in Paddington, in the City of Westminster, London, founded in 1845.

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Susannah Lattin

Susannah Lattin (January 7, 1848 – August 27, 1868) was an American woman who died of a postpartum infection at an illegal maternity clinic at 6 Amity Place in New York City, operated by Henry Dyer Grindle.

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Sylvia Dubois

Sylvia Dubois (c. 1788/89 – 1889), also spelled as Silvia Dubois or Sylvie Dubois, was an African American woman born into slavery who became free after striking her slave mistress.

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The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever

The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever is an essay written by Oliver Wendell Holmes which first appeared in The New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine in 1843.

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The Cry and the Covenant

The Cry and the Covenant is a novel by Morton Thompson written in 1949 and published by Doubleday.

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The Far Pavilions

The Far Pavilions is an epic novel of British-Indian history by M. M. Kaye, published in 1978, which tells the story of an English officer during the British Raj.

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The Story of Louis Pasteur

The Story of Louis Pasteur is a 1936 American black-and-white biographical film from Warner Bros., produced by Henry Blanke, directed by William Dieterle, that stars Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise, and Donald Woods, and Paul Muni as the renowned scientist who developed major advances in microbiology, which revolutionized agriculture and medicine.

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The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908.

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Timeline of medicine and medical technology

Timeline of the history of medicine and medical technology.

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UK statutory notification system

The UK statutory notification system for infectious diseases (also called Notifications of Infectious Diseases or NOIDS) is a system whereby doctors are required to notify a "Proper Officer" of the local authority (such as a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control) if they are presented with a case of a serious infectious disease such as diphtheria or measles.

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Whitlock Nicoll

Whitlock Nicoll or Nicholl (1786–1838) was an English physician.

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William Brownrigg

William Brownrigg (24 March 1711 – 1800) was a British doctor and scientist, who practised at Whitehaven in Cumberland.

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1843 in science

The year 1843 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1847 in science

The year 1847 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_infections

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