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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Boston Society for Medical Improvement
Boston Society for Medical Improvement
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13 February 1843
Oliver Wendell Holmes
first suggested, in a paper delivered to the
Boston Society for Medical Improvement
, that
childbed
(puerperal) fever was carried on doctors' hands.
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