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Childbed fever

noun
1.
Serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon.  Synonym: puerperal fever.





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"Childbed fever" Quotes from Famous Books



... cared for her boy alone the whole day, went even to the kitchen and carried water for his bath. Joern Uhl allowed it. For he was proud to have such a strong wife, "not so affected as the others." It led however to her death. Somehow she must have become infected, for soon after a severe childbed fever broke out. ...
— Sleep Walking and Moon Walking - A Medico-Literary Study • Isidor Isaak Sadger


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