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| Wrote the first American textbook on obstetrics for midwives |
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| Developed a treatment using 2% silver nitrate in infants eyes to prevent blindness caused by gonorrhea |
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| Established pediatric nursing as a medical speciality |
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| Wrote a paper about the contagiousness of puerpural fever (child-bed fever), thus intiating the germ theory of disease |
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| Applied antiseptic principals to surgical practice |
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| Determined that puerperal fever (child-bed fever) was caused by bacteria that could be spread by people & objects |
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| Provided care for poor prregnant women that was the seed for development of todays "Planned Parenthood programs" |
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| Associated unwashed hands of medical students with dissection of cadevers and puerperal fever (child-bed fever) among postpartum women |
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| Greek physician in 2nd century Rome who instituted the practice of podalic version(procedure used to rotate a fetus to a breech, used to grab the feet of the unborn twin fetus to facilitate delivery) |
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| Helped establish the Childrens Bureau, leading to birth registartion & school lunch programs |
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