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SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (1818-1865). Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers. Pest, Vienna and Leipzig: C.A. Hartleben's, 1861.
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SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (1818-1865). Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers. Pest, Vienna and Leipzig: C.A. Hartleben's, 1861.
8o (225 x 140 mm). (Occasional foxing.) 19th-century quarter morocco (upper cover and spine detached, worn).
FIRST EDITION of Semmelweis's complete account of his epoch-making discovery of the etiology, contagiousness and means of prevention of puerperal fever. "Semmelweis, pioneer of antisepsis in obstetrics, was the first to recognize that puerperal fever is a septicaemia" (Garrison-Morton). ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MEDICAL RARITIES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Garrison-Morton 6277; Grolier Medicine 72A; Heirs of Hippocrates 1851; Norman 1926; PMM 316b2; Waller 8830.
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FIRST EDITION of Semmelweis's complete account of his epoch-making discovery of the etiology, contagiousness and means of prevention of puerperal fever. "Semmelweis, pioneer of antisepsis in obstetrics, was the first to recognize that puerperal fever is a septicaemia" (Garrison-Morton). ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MEDICAL RARITIES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Garrison-Morton 6277; Grolier Medicine 72A; Heirs of Hippocrates 1851; Norman 1926; PMM 316b2; Waller 8830.