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 peril of childbed fever menaces your life!
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
One out of every three women who entered the First Division ward died of childbed fever; most victims' babies died too.
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 J. Sadger
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