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SEMMELWEIS, IGNAZ PHILIPP. Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 cloth, lacks backstrip; some

SEMMELWEIS, IGNAZ PHILIPP. Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 cloth, lacks backstrip; some foxing, most noticeably at beginning and end, title crudely rehinged, with perforated stamp, repaired in lower margin on blank verso, lacks pages iii-vi (foreword); institutional bookplate (with release stamp). Later 19th-century stamp of the obstetrician and gynecologist Hermann Fehling (1847-1925). Pest, Vienna, & Leipzig, 1861

  • Notes: first edition. "one of the epoch-making books in medical literature" (Garrison-Morton), documenting Semmelweis's observations on the etiology, contagiousness, and prevention of puerperal fever. Garrison-Morton 6277; Norman 1926; Printing and the Mind of Man 316(b2).

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