How To Use Puerpera In A Sentence
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He further concluded that these cadaverous particles could adhere to the hands of physicians and thus be transferred to the women, thereby transmitting puerperal fever.
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Puerpera grandma is illogical, father all his strength suck.
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A physician holding himself in readiness to attend cases of midwifery should never take part in the postmortem examination of cases of puerperal fever.
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Anglia magnarum foecunda puerpera rerum, siue solum spectes nobile, siue salum;
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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In Japan, the puerpera is not placed in the usual recumbent position, but sits propped up by pillows, the mat upon which she was confined being left in place.
Labor Among Primitive Peoples
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Among the Kanikars the puerpera receives as a tonic for the first day a kari (ragout) seasoned with turmeric pepper and tamarind.
Labor Among Primitive Peoples
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With regard to the first period the puerpera should be as unclean during the time of the bloody flow as she is during the menstrual flow, and this period after the birth of a male child is fixed at seven days, but after the birth of a female at two weeks. 3
Labor Among Primitive Peoples
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The Wakamba ordain a coitus about the third day, and after this the puerpera is considered clean.
Labor Among Primitive Peoples
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Guidelines for the evaluation of nonpuerperal galactorrhea should also include inquiry about previous pregnancy or lactation.
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Continuing the consideration of the influence of the generative organs in the production of insanity, I come now to puerperal insanity.
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Such was the devastation of puerperal, or childbed, fever, which stormed European and American maternity wards for over a century.
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Does the month eliminate can cure puerperal fever?
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Dewees 6.61 reports a case of puerperal convulsions in a patient under his care which was attended with sudden canities.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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It is evident enough why the ancient Israelites considered the puerpera unclean during the first days after childbirth, but it seems difficult to explain why this uncleanliness should have lasted seven days after the birth of a male and fourteen after that of a female child.
Labor Among Primitive Peoples
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Puerperal insanity proper comes on within one month of parturition; and, like the insanity of pregnancy, occurs most often in primiparae.
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Semmelweis, for instance, is associated with 1847, the year when he introduced antisepsis by chlorine washings to prevent puerperal fever.
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Similar beliefs existed among many ancient people: in Athens the puerpera was considered unclean, and whoever touched her was forbidden to visit an altar; even the midwife who was present at the confinement was obliged to perform a religious cleansing of her hands at the feast of the Amphidromies, when the new-born child was carried about the family altar.
Labor Among Primitive Peoples
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The women of the Laguna Pueblo remain unwashed and in bed for four days; very early on the fifth the puerpera is washed and dressed under the superintendence of a Sheaine or priest, who walks out, followed by the women, to see the sun rise and to render thanks for her safe delivery.
Labor Among Primitive Peoples
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Childbirth fever (This is also called childbed fever, postpartum infection, or puerperal infection.)
Chapter 33
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She herself probably used Liza's herbs to help women with puerperal fever, to clean infected wounds, to help bring down the milk.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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It is a custom throughout Annam that the puerpera must take a medicine consisting of a decoction of laxatives and purgatives.
Labor Among Primitive Peoples
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And hereof saith a noble versifier: Transit ad æthera, virgo puerpera, virgula Jesse, Non sine corpore, sed sine tempore, tendit adesse.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4
