| Of these, around 200 will suffer from severe post-natal depression or the even more serious puerperal psychosis. |
| Washing hands with chlorinated water was not high tech in the nineteenth century, but it was effective in reducing sepsis and puerperal fever. |
| The boy lived, but his mother contracted puerperal fever, and died six days later in delirium. |
| Continuing the consideration of the influence of the generative organs in the production of insanity, I come now to puerperal insanity. |
| It also increases the risk of puerperal infection which, in turn, can lead to death or peritonitis and sterility. |
| The consequence was that he infected them, and puerperal fever was contracted. |
