Oliver Wendell Holmes identified the cause and prevention of puerperal fever

In 1843, Harvard Medical School dean and physician Oliver Wendall Holmes discovered the cause and prevention of childhood fever, or puerperal fever.

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Source: National Library of Medicine
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