The etiology, the concept and the prophylaxis of childbed fever

Author(s)

• Semmelweis, Ignác Fülöp
• Nuland, Sherwin B.
• Gyorgyey, Ferenc A.
• Siebold, Eduard, Casper Jakob von
• Scanzoni von Lichtenfels, Friedrich Wilhelm
• Späth, Joseph

Bibliographic Information

The etiology, the concept and the prophylaxis of childbed fever

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

（The classics of medicine library）

The Classics of Medicine Library, c1981

Special ed

Note

"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

Includes bibliographical references

Details

• NCID: BA68879669
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Birmingham, Ala.
• Pages/Volumes: xlii, [4], p. [351]-893
• Size: 25 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Puerperal septicemia
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA64780220