Re: Homebirth, was VBAC, ect
From: Dr. Ainsworth (ainsron@sbcglobal.net)
Wed Apr 26 10:54:34 2006
I don't know how that message got truncated so badly. What I said was
that Semmelweiss couldn't have differentiated the cause of childbirth
fever as group A or Group B strep,and it could have been either. We all
know that Group A tends to be the most virulent and is the most likely
culprit. However, Pasteur's work on hemolytic strep wasn't published
until several years after Semmelweiss's paper in 1861 and hospitals
didn't start incorporating his microbiology techniques into their
facilities until the early 20th century.
At Wed, 26 Apr 2006, ainsron wrote:
>
>of
>been
>differentiation
>take
>hold in hospitals until the early 20th century.
>
>crippling
>the silk industry in France. He discovered the infectious agents and
>and
>study of
>specific
>knowledge,
>asepsis.
>Preventing contagion and infection, his method of sterilization
>revolutionized surgery and obstetrics.
>
>in
>the battle against infectious diseases. He went on to discover three
>and
>pneumococcus.
>
>Ronald E. Ainsworth, MD, FACOG
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Raymond
>Stephen
>Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:25 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>Subject: Re: Homebirth, was VBAC, ect
>
>was
>not 30%:
>
>1%.
>dominated
>Hungarian medicine and his findings were ignored."
>
>Steve
>
> _____
>
>From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of
>zygote@icsi.net
>Sent: Tuesday, 25 April 2006 11:58 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>Subject: Re: Homebirth, was VBAC, ect
>
>No historical revionist theory allowed!
>
>Semmelweiss was looking at and studied GRoup A strep - NOT groupB!!!
>
>On 23 Apr 2006 at 23:58, Raymond Stephen wrote:
>
>streptococcal
>infection and was what
>
>Puerperal
>Fever and to advocate
>
>was
>clarified the deaths
>
>30%
>death rate was that seen
>
>figure
>was ever seen
>
>> elsewhere. >
>
>> Steve Raymond
>
>> From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of
>Stmidwife@aol.com
>
>> Sent: Monday, 24 April 2006 8:18 AM
>
>> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>
>> Subject: Re: Homebirth, was VBAC, ect
>
>family,
>medicinals were made
>
>valerian
>root, ect. Actually, just
>
>> looked up common infections of that era and in 1845 it says that
>
>> Childbirth Fever, or the Puerperal Fever, a bacterial infection of the
>female genital tract after
>
>> childbirth, took the lives of up to 30% of the women giving birth in
>lying-in wards, whereas most
>
>> women who gave birth at home remained unaffected.
>
>> Resourses: Encarta Encyclopedia; Penny Simkin, Signifigant Twentieth
>Century Developments
>
>> and Associated Changes in Maternity Care; Lying-in, A History of
>Childbirth in America, by
>
>Ostheimer.
>
>ob-gyn-
>l@obgyn.net writes:
>
>> Sue,
>
>dies
>
>throat.
>
>> And many other conditions that we now have therapy for.
>
>Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD
>
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>
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