title: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) and Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865): preventing the transmission of puerperal fever.
authors.affiliation: Mayo Foundation History of Medicine Library, Rochester, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Hilary J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lane
authors.forename: Nava
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Blum
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fee
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008428:Maternal Mortality / Q000266:history*; D036801:Parturition; D011247:Pregnancy; D011645:Puerperal Infection / Q000266:history* / Q000517:prevention & control; D014481:United States