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HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence, Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1855, 8°, FIRST EDITION (title and dedication leaf soiled), modern cloth.
"Holmes was the first definitely to establish the contagious nature of puerperal fever. His essay on the subject took a strong line against the opinions then prevailing, stirring up violent opposition among the obstreticians of Philadelphia" [Garrison & Morton 6274]
"Holmes was the first definitely to establish the contagious nature of puerperal fever. His essay on the subject took a strong line against the opinions then prevailing, stirring up violent opposition among the obstreticians of Philadelphia" [Garrison & Morton 6274]