NOUN
- serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon
How To Use puerperal fever In A Sentence
- 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.
- A physician holding himself in readiness to attend cases of midwifery should never take part in the postmortem examination of cases of puerperal fever.
- Does the month eliminate can cure puerperal fever?
- Semmelweis, for instance, is associated with 1847, the year when he introduced antisepsis by chlorine washings to prevent puerperal fever.
- 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
