title: Puerperal fever, anticontagionists, and miasmatic infection, 1840-1860: toward a new history of puerperal fever in antebellum America.
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Parsons
mesh_terms: D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D017757:Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient / Q000266:history; D011247:Pregnancy; D011645:Puerperal Infection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history* / Q000635:transmission; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology