Story of the black death of the child bed
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
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In the 18th century, there was something that is spread across Europe and eventually made its way to America parable field, also known as Black death of childbirth. Basically, what was happening is women giving birth and they would die within 48 hours after giving birth. The black death of child birth was the rage of Europe. And it got worse and worse over the course of the century, in some hospital, it was as high as 70% of the women who gave birth would die as a result of giving birth. But this was the, this was the time of empirical data and science and we had thrown away things like dr and mysticism. These were the men of science. These were doctors and these doctors that men of science wanted to study and try and find the reason for this black dead of childhood. So they got to work and study and they would study the corpses of the women who had died. And in the morning, they would conduct a s and then in the afternoon, they would go and deliver babies and finish their round. And it wasn't until somewhere in mid 18th century. That Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes, father of Supreme Court, when their Holmes realized that all these doctors were contacting autopsies in the morning, were washing their hands before they delivered babies in the afternoon. And he pointed out and said, guys, you are the problem and they ignored him and called him crazy for 30 years. Until finally, somebody realized that if they simply wash their hand, it would go away. And that's exactly what happened when they started sterilizing their instrument and washing their hand. The black death of child bed disappeared. So the point is, is sometimes cure the problem.