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Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis 1818–65
cities reveals a community of expectation, and her exploitation of jokes and epigrams can be taken even further to show the widespread penetration of medical ideas and medical theories. She looks at the evidence from the writings of famous patients, including Cicero, Seneca, and Aristides (where she underestimates Weinreich's contributions), as well as exemplary tales of great or infamous docto...
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This splendid little book provides two services. One, it again makes Semmelweis available to an English-speaking audience, the only previous edition, Frank Murphy's 1941 translation in Medical Classics, being somewhat cumbersome. This time Carter has given us an abridged text, cleansed of much of the repetitiousness, the distracting references, and the awkwardness of expression which made the o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0002-9378
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2018.10.036