childbed

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When his book, The Etiology, the Concept, and the Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, met with derision, his mind snapped.

From Time Magazine Archive

Childbed on the whole inclines to arousing the dormant inclination toward pulmonary consumption.

From Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated by Brendecke, Fr. (Friedrich)

Childbed, the expulsion of the child from the womb.

From The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; a study in hygiene by Galbraith, Anna M. (Anna Mary)

Alas all things is thus out of order, by reason the good woman did not think to come so soon in Childbed.

From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by Marsh, A.

This can hardly be said of the chapter of Dr. Meigs's volume which treats of Contagion in Childbed Fever.

From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell