{"id":7291,"date":"2019-05-26T20:51:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T01:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=7291"},"modified":"2023-12-10T11:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T17:24:34","slug":"mfdj-05-26-2019-childbed-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=7291","title":{"rendered":"MFDJ 05\/26\/2019: Childbed Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"null\">Today&#8217;s Severely Weakened\u00a0Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n<p>Puerperal fever, also known at the time as\u00a0<em>childbed fever<\/em>, was a tragically common infection among new mothers in the 19th century. In a time before the washing of hands and tools became mandated routine, this highly communicable disease was spread easily and frequently between a doctor and his weakened female patient, whose vulnerable body was still raw, spent, and bleeding from labor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/17fffac2-39bf-4d2b-a2b2-610fd23e94fc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/17fffac2-39bf-4d2b-a2b2-610fd23e94fc-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/17fffac2-39bf-4d2b-a2b2-610fd23e94fc-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/17fffac2-39bf-4d2b-a2b2-610fd23e94fc.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Within a few days of giving birth, the woman would begin to feel the first symptoms. What first came on as chills and fever would quickly evolve into a &#8220;fierce and consuming&#8221; infection, which spread with shocking speed and searing pain throughout the woman&#8217;s entire reproductive system. Many times, the women&#8217;s bodies could not fight off the infection &#8211; severely weakened as they were by pregnancy, breast-feeding, and the aftermath of their long, hard birthing process. It is no wonder the disease earned the harrowing moniker the\u00a0<em>destroyer of families<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KSsRC6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr.\u00a0M\u00fctter\u2019s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an article from the\u00a0<em>Freeman&#8217;s Journal\u00a0<\/em>(Philadelphia) dated February 4, 1784 describing a tragic death from puerperal fever:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1f3ba683-f1b5-4330-b343-86a323d1ce45.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1f3ba683-f1b5-4330-b343-86a323d1ce45-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1f3ba683-f1b5-4330-b343-86a323d1ce45-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1f3ba683-f1b5-4330-b343-86a323d1ce45.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Severely Weakened\u00a0Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Puerperal fever, also known at the time as\u00a0childbed fever, was a tragically common infection among new mothers in the 19th century. In a time before the washing of hands and tools became mandated routine, this highly communicable disease was spread easily and frequently between a doctor and his weakened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10526,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291\/revisions\/10526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}