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Her death was attributed to septicaemia, but she actually died in chilbirth, unmarried.

He married Filomena Pimentel (who died in chilbirth), granddaughter of Count of Heras.

She argued that prohibitions against midwives first arose in the early 1900's not to protect mothers and infants but "out of doctors' determination to secure for themselves the domain of chilbirth."

A self-described "wordsmith", she coined the popular word freebirth to describe unassisted chilbirth in a positive mode, and the lesser known, phenomenological Birthkeeper to describe the spiritual midwife in a traditional shamanic or yogini role.

At length, in childbed of a daughter, she encountered death 30 October 1691.

Childbed, or puerperal, fever, Semmelweis argued, was actually a disease created entirely by doctors.

"Childbed, certainly.

It had gone so hard, so frightfully hard with the girl, her own childbed had been nothing to this ... .

He published a book of his findings in Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever.

In that capacity, he attended the childbed of Cleofe Malatesta Palaiogina in 1433.

'The Etiology, Understanding, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever')

Immortal Magyar: Semmelweis, the Conqueror of Childbed Fever (1950)

Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever is a medical book by Ignaz Semmelweis.

In 1858 Semmelweis finally published his own account of his work in an essay entitled, "The Etiology of Childbed Fever".

On The Bearings of Chronic Disease of the Heart Upon Pregnancy, Parturition, and Childbed, London: 1878.

Ignaz Semmelweis, who published his work The Cause, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever in 1861, summarizing experiments and observations since 1847.

He published a Monody to the Memory of a Young Lady who died in Childbed, with a poetical dedication to Lord Lyttelton, (1768) after his wife's death.

THE DOCTORS' PLAGUE Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis.

Raphael C Lee and Anna Chien The Doctor's Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis.

Earlier still, Ignaz Semmelweis - who would later die of the disease - included a section entitled "Childbed fever is a variety of pyaemia" in his treatise, The Etiology of Childbed Fever (1861).

Some years later, Mother Barnes, a midwife from Great Shefford, recalled being brought blindfold in 1575 to the childbed of a lady, with a gentleman standing by who commanded her to save the life of the mother, but who (as soon as the child was born) threw it into the fire.