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The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever is an essay written by Oliver Wendell Holmes which first appeared in The New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine in 1843. It was later reprinted in the "Medical Essays" in 1855. [ 1 ]
In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. published The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever and controversially concluded that puerperal fever was frequently carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses. He suggested that clean clothing and avoidance of autopsies by those aiding birth would prevent the spread of the disease.
Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "The Annotated Autocrat" a mostly complete set of annotations to Holmes's Autocrat of the Breakfast Table "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever" by Holmes; The Deacon's Masterpiece The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay: A Logical Story – audio reading; Works with text by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
James Young Simpson, for instance, saw no difference between Semmelweis's groundbreaking findings and the idea presented in an 1843 paper by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. [27] that childbed fever was contagious (i.e. that infected persons could pass the infection to others). [28]
Gordon's clear demonstration of the contagious nature of puerperal fever and his advocacy of disinfection of the hands and clothes of medical attendants was published 48 years before The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever (1843) by Oliver Wendall Holmes. [14] Holmes quoted from and gave generous credit to Gordon.
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He vehemently disagreed with Oliver Wendell-Holmes Sr. that puerperal fever was contagious [4] and could be spread by physicians from patient to patient. He wrote in his publication "On The Nature, Signs, and Treatment of Childbed Fevers" and stated, "Doctors are gentlemen and gentlemen's hands are clean".
A Milwaukee jury has found Randell Jefferson, a former teacher's aide at the Oliver Wendell Holmes School, guilty of seven felonies related to his contact with children.