Classic pages in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Classic pages in

Obstetrics and Gynecology OLIVER WENDELL The contagiousness The

Holmes lish the servation,

New

England

Journal

it

be the stretches

to which negligently,

was, “Whatever norant causes pestilence in

of the

she

object her

trusts unadvisedly,

indulgence so much sphere of

her

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life, or

care .

doubly selfishly.”

may be granted the time misery, a single physician

courtesy

and

Surgery,

vol.

the literature with Among the many a mother, or with

of trembling aching limbs.

but a crime; and in the knowledge his profession, should give way to expanded and republished in 1855 nor

of puerperal

of Medicine

eloquently combined evidence from contagiousness of puerperal sepsis. “The woman about to become

her bosom, should tender burden, or profession hazard

Quarterly

HOLMES fever. 1, pp.

503-530,

logical argument immortal lines her new-born

and sympathy God forbid

wherever that any

to has

those come

should

who have when the be

looked

period, (note

heretofore existence

upon

National 852

Library

of Medicine.)

to was infant

not

estabhis obupon

she bears member of

precious at that eventful His final recommendation

of such occurrences, the duties of the his paramount obligations to society.” (Puerperal Fever, as a Private Pestilence, of the

1842-1843.

been of a as

her the

should above) the igprivate

a misfortune

practitioner The essay Boston,

to was Tick-