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CHILDBED FEVER A Nineteenth-Century Mystery PART I Ignaz Semmelweis, a young Hungarian doctor working in the obstetrical ward of Vienna General Hospital in the late 1840s, was dismayed at the high death vate wmong his patients. He hadnoticed that nearly 20% of the womsen under his and his colleagues care in Division 1 - of the ward (that is, the division wtended by physicians and male medical stadents) died shortly after childbirth This phenomenon had come to be known as "childbed fever. Alarmingly, Semmelweis noted that this death rate was four to five times greater than that in "Division Il" of the ward (that is, the division attended by female midwifery students) REPUBLIR OSTERREICH Study Questions: What were Semmelweis' initial observations? What was the problem at hand? What possible explanatory story might Semmelweis come up with? How might Semmelweis test his suspicions? I. 2. 3. 4. PART II One day. Semmelweis and some of his colleagues were in the autopsy room performing autopsies as they often did between deliveries. They were discussing their concerns about death rates from childbed fever. One of Semmelweis' friends was distracted by the conversation, and he punctured his finger with the scalpel. Days later, Semmelweis' friend became quite sick, showing symptoms not unlike those of childbed fever. His friend's ultimate death strengthened Semmelweis' resolve to understand and prevent childbed fever. Study Questions: I. 2. What might Semmelweis now propose as an explanatory story? How could Semmelweis test his new hypothesis?

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PART--I

1. What were Semmelweis' initial observations?

High death rate after childbirth 20% of women in his division His division was primarily male Drs. Female division 2- far less death. Semmelweis observed that women giving birth in his ward had a much higher death rate than that of midwifery students in a separate ward.

2. What was the problem at hand?

The problem was that women giving birth died shortly after quite frequently in Semmelweis’ ward.

3. What possible explanatory story might Semmelweis come up with?

Semmelweis may have said that the solace of a female partner facilitates pressure and diminishes the danger of death, with the goal that's the reason his ward had a higher demise rate.

His division is doing something wrong Men was causing disease.

4. How might Semmelweis test his suspicions?

To test a doubt, for example, that, he could pursue each progression that a female understudy did with his patient to check whether this is on the grounds that he's a man rather than a lady that such a large number of child­birthing ladies are passing endlessly.

PART--II

1. What might Semmelweis now propose as an explanatory story?

Handling corpses linked to disease Something on corspe surface cause disease Transfer of disease agent via male Dr's to mothers.

2. How could Semmelweis test his new hypothesis?

Create hygiene regimen eg. Handwashing Observe, scientific method.

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