Author: Stage, G.G. (Georg Gottlob) [1839-1930]
Title: Undersøgelser afgaaende Barselfeberen i Danmark udenfor Kjøbenhavn
Description: Kjøbenhavn, C.A. Reitzel, 1868. orig. wrappers. 20x12cm, 136 pp. University of Copenhagen doctoral dissertation.. Some page-edge foxing. Some rumpling to rear cover. VG. ¶ Text entirely in Danish: Studies concerning puerperal fever in Denmark outside Copenhagen. ["...Stage's 1868 thesis had an important effect. The population and public health authorities no longer imagined but rather regarded it as a certainty that midwives could spread puerperal fever. This led to an immediate surge in the number of midwife suspensions..." - Anne Løkke, "'Antiseptic' Transformation of Danish Midwives", in Hilary Marland & Anne Marie Rafferty "Midwives, Society and Childbirth: Debates and Controversies in the Modern Period", p. 110].

Keywords: Danish Medical History, Danish Medicine, Public Health, Intrapartum Fever, Maternity, Neonatal, Denmark, Puerperal,