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. 2010 Jun;100(6):1008-9.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.185363. Epub 2010 Apr 15.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) and Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865): preventing the transmission of puerperal fever

Hilary J Lane  1 , Nava Blum, Elizabeth Fee
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) and Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865): preventing the transmission of puerperal fever

Hilary J Lane et al. Am J Public Health. 2010 Jun.
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In the late nineteenth century, Oliver Wendell Holmes was so popular that his image and lines from his poetry and prose appeared on items such as this calendar, as well as games, postcards, and gift books. Courtesy of Marilyn Barth and the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
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Semmelwei s Defender of Motherhood. Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
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References

    1. Cutter IS, Viets HR, A Short History of Midwifery (Philadelphia; London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1964), 99
    1. “Physician at the Breakfast Table: Oliver Wendell Holmes as Popular Icon,” exhibition curated by Michael North, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD
    1. Holmes OW, “The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever,” New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Surgery 1 (1943): 503–521
    1. Holmes OW, Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence (Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1855).
    1. Dowling WC, Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Press, 2006), 95

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