childbed fever
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of childbed fever
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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Faced with a doctor-led maternity ward in which maternal deaths from the dreaded childbed fever were significantly higher than in the midwife-run clinic there, he racked his brain for clues as to why.
From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2020
The humblest rickshaw coolie knows where to go to have his mucus-draining eyes treated, or who will help when his wife has childbed fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
As director of obstetrics in the miserable, tenth-rate Pesth General Hospital, Semmelweis, working day & night to oversee his prophylaxis, finally managed to cut childbed fever mortality to zero.
From Time Magazine Archive
The drug which cured young Roosevelt seems to be a specific cure for all streptococcic infections�septic sore throat, childbed fever, postabortal septicemia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Somehow she must have become infected, for soon after a severe childbed fever broke out.
From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.
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