An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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GORDON, Alexander

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A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever of Aberdeen.

London: G. G. & J. Robinson, 1795.

Gordon was the first to advance as a definite hypothesis the contagious nature of puerperal fever, thus preceding Holmes and Semmelweis by half a century. He also advocated the disinfection of the clothes of the doctor and midwife.



Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Puerperal Fever