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Puerperal

adjective

Relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth.

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"Puerperal" Quotes from Famous Books

... came home from the works, to which he returned every now and then in order to try his little motor, he related that he had that day seen Madame Grandidier, the poor young woman who had become insane through an attack of puerperal fever following upon the death of a child. Although most frightful attacks of madness occasionally came over her, and although life beside her was extremely painful, even during the intervals when she remained downcast and gentle as a child, her husband had never been willing to send ...

— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... a consideration of the poor mother. Dr Matthews Duncan in 1870 put the puerperal mortality at 1 in 100 for in-patients and 1 in 120 for patients in their own homes—shocking figures for a physiological event! Miss Wilson, a member of the Central Midwives Board, stated in 1907 that the average mortality of English women, from puerperal fever, a preventable disease, is 47 ...

— Women Workers in Seven Professions • Edith J. Morley

Words linked to "Puerperal" : childbirth, puerperal fever, puerperium, puerpera