LEVY, MAURITIUS MARCUS.

De Balneis russicis dissertatio quam pro licentia.

Hauniæ (Copenhagen), Fabritius de Tengnagel, 1832. 8vo. In the original blue wrappers. Author and title to top of front wrapper. Occasional brown spots throughout, otherwise fine. (8), 83 pp.

First appearance of Danish professor in medicine Carl Levy's on the usefulness of Russian baths.

Professor, Dr. Med. Carl Edvard Marius Levy (sometimes spelled "Carl Eduard Marius Levy" or in foreign literature "Karl Edouard Marius Levy", September 10, 1808 - December 30, 1865) was professor and head of the Danish Maternity institution inCopenhagen (Fødsels- og Plejestiftelsen).Professor Carl Braun in Vienna said about the Copenhagen hospital, that "because this is the most appropriate and noteworthy newly constructed maternity hospital, in which every step has been taken to halt puerperal fever epidemics, we allow ourselves to estimate that in this new building under Levy's direction no puerperal fever epidemics will occur."

Professor Levy was an outspoken critic of Ignaz Semmelweis' ideas, that childbed fever was an iatrogenic disease. Semmelweis theorized that decaying matter on the hands of doctors, who had recently conducted autopsies, was brought into contact with the genitials of birthgiving women during the medical examinations at the maternity clinic. Semmelweis proposed a radical hand washing theory using chlorinated lime, now a known disinfectant, and demonstrated dramatic reductions in mortality rates.

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