childbed fever

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. puerperal fever.

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Etymology

Origin of childbed fever

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

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

From Scientific American

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

From Salon

In a large class of cases, however, the connection between childbed fever and sepsis has been deduced rather from analogy than direct proof.

From Project Gutenberg

Then she remembered the story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor who discovered that deaths from childbed fever could be more or less eliminated by physicians simply washing their hands with chlorinated lime between patients.

From The Guardian

I had often enough heard of the danger of childbed fever, even if I could not form for myself any idea of its terrors.

From Project Gutenberg