Puerperal fever

hard, or in some cases, harder than men but, most women often earned lower wages than men for doing the same or more amounts of work. Childbirth at the time was very filthy. Puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever, was an infection of some part of the female reproductive organs, usually accompanied with a sickly fever and severe cramping that, in numerous cases, resulted in death for women and her not-yet born child. After the industrial revolution, women and children had new never-before…

Frost’s poetry has a darker side that is likely the result of the tragedy that he went through in his life. Frost suffered from a series of family disasters around the 1930s. Specifically, his youngest child, Marjorie, died a slow death from the puerperal fever, his wife, Elinor, died of surgery complications, and his son, Carol, committed suicide in 1940 (“Robert Frost”). Poems such as “Desert Places”, which has a lonely and depressed tone, reflect some of the emotions that Frost had to endure…

DROPLET PRECAUTIONS These are used for organisms that can be transmitted by close, face-to-face contact, such as influenza or meningococcal meningitis. Droplet precautions include the following: ◊ Place client in private room ◊ If a private is not available, place client with another client who is infected with the same microorganism ◊ Wear a mask if working within 3 feet of the client. ◊ Limit movement of client outside the room to essential purposes. ◊ Place a surgical mask on the…

Robert Frost Modernism and a rich personal background had an enormous influence on the writing of Robert Frost, and are showcased in some of his most famous poems. Robert Frost was born on March 27, 1874, and his life was all about nature and the messages God sent through it. He wondered about these tiny marvels of nature and sought deeper meanings from them. For example, “The Road Not Taken”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, and “Choose Something Like a Star”…

In a study, called “Child Fatalities from Religion-Motivated Medical Neglect”, it women and men who assist in birth are not properly trained, and no women can make decisions over their husbands’ choices, no matter what the choice is. (Hall,8) Also, many times, people (children) are denied injury treatment or illness prevention because of this, such as when a child died of pneumonia, whereas another child had already died of the same disease years ago. The couple had clearly chosen faith healing,…

During the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries many of the medical discoveries we have today were not yet thought about. For this reason, many newborns did not have the immune system to fight off bacteria or viruses and were not able to survive. It was also common for mothers to contract infections from the instruments used while giving birth, which made pregnancy very dangerous as well. Especially in some parts of the New World, societal expectation put a lot of pressure on married women to have…

founded in 1726. These two schools both required that in order to graduate, a student must submit a dissertation, or final thesis paper, on a topic of their choosing. Most students focused their dissertations to topics such as typhus, dysentery, and fevers. Given that both schools did not admit women into their student body until the late nineteenth century, all dissertations from the University of Pennsylvania before 1879 and all…

Mary Shelley, author of the famous horror novel Frankenstein, drew much of the inspiration for her narrative from her own life experiences and from the world of her time. Several other written works, including some authored by family members, influenced her desire to write. Throughout her life, she endured sadness, losses, and many tragic deaths that shaped her characters within her works. Countless innovations and new ideas in the field of science inspired her to push the boundaries of the…

Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein was inspired by the works of Benjamin Franklin combined with tragedy in her own life. Benjamin Franklin’s work with electricity only 66 years earlier had filled society with excitement over the possibilities for its uses, including the potential to re-animate the dead. Mary Shelley 's past was filled with death; losing three children, a stepsister, and her mother. Victor Frankenstein combined these two influences to fight death with electricity, and brought…

The novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus published in 1818, written by Mary Shelley, a British female writer in the 19th century. Frankenstein was one of the most famous works in the world, already been translated to more than one hundred languages since it published. Mary’s parents were very eminent during that time. Her father was William Godwin, a radical political philosopher, and her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was one of the earliest feminists, who wrote A Vindication of the…