SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (1818-1865). Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers, Pest, Vienna & Leipzig: C.A. Hartleben, 1861, 8°, FIRST EDITION, portrait pasted onto front free endpaper, contemporary cloth (rebacked preserving old spine) [GM 6277: "one of the epoch-making books in medical literature"; Grolier Medicine 72a; Norman 1926; Waller 8830] Provenance: Spiegelberg (contemporary signature on title and endpaper); Margaret & William Bloom (bookplate); JCL; Zwei offene Briefe an Dr. J. Spaeth ... und an Hofrath Dr. F.W. Scanzoni, Pest: Gustav Emich, 1861, small 8° (library stamps on verso of title), recent boards, original wrappers bound in. [Waller 8834] Provenance: Ahlfeld Library (2)

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SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (1818-1865). Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers, Pest, Vienna & Leipzig: C.A. Hartleben, 1861, 8°, FIRST EDITION, portrait pasted onto front free endpaper, contemporary cloth (rebacked preserving old spine) [GM 6277: "one of the epoch-making books in medical literature"; Grolier Medicine 72a; Norman 1926; Waller 8830] Provenance: Spiegelberg (contemporary signature on title and endpaper); Margaret & William Bloom (bookplate); JCL; Zwei offene Briefe an Dr. J. Spaeth ... und an Hofrath Dr. F.W. Scanzoni, Pest: Gustav Emich, 1861, small 8° (library stamps on verso of title), recent boards, original wrappers bound in. [Waller 8834] Provenance: Ahlfeld Library (2)

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Grolier: "Semmelweis's discovery of the etiology and prevention of childbed fever was of the greatest importance in saving the lives and preventing suffering of women in childbirth. His major finding was that the carrying of infective material from dissecting rooms to the delivery room was the major source of the problem." The second work is an open letter to his critics.

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