Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-229) and index.
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An introduction to puerperal fever -- Puerperal fever in the eighteenth century -- Gordon of Aberdeen -- Epidemic puerperal fever in towns -- Puerperal fever and the lying-in hospitals -- Puerperal fever : causes and contagion -- Semmelweis -- Monocausalists, multicausalists, and germ theory -- Lister and antisepsis -- Puerperal fever in the early twentieth century -- Puerperal fever : a curable disease -- The epidemiology of puerperal fever.