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puerperal fever: Quick Facts

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Also Known As childbed fever

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Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
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Leonard Colebrook
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Thomas Willis, engraving by G. Vertue, 1742, after a portrait by D. Loggan, c. 1666
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