A report, made by order of government, of a memoir, containing a new, easy, and successful method of treating the child-bed or puerperal fever, made use of by the late M. Doulcet ... : read at a meeting of the Royal Medical Society, held at the Louvre, the 6th of September, 1782 / translated from the French ; to which are added notes, containing a view of the nature and causes of this alarming and fatal disease, by John Whitehead.

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1783
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Credit: A report, made by order of government, of a memoir, containing a new, easy, and successful method of treating the child-bed or puerperal fever, made use of by the late M. Doulcet ... : read at a meeting of the Royal Medical Society, held at the Louvre, the 6th of September, 1782 / translated from the French ; to which are added notes, containing a view of the nature and causes of this alarming and fatal disease, by John Whitehead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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