ABSTRACT
Before an effective obstetrics maternal mortality has to be estimated with 1-2 per cent and stillbirth-rate with about 5 per cent. 8-10 per cent of all lifeborn babies died during puerperium of their mothers. Development of obstetrics primarily caused a decreasing maternal mortality, which can be proved in the nineteenth century. After that perinatal losses could be reduced, too.
Subject(s)
Maternal Mortality , Female , Fetal Death , Germany , History, 16th Century , History, 17th Century , History, 18th Century , History, 19th Century , Humans , Infant Mortality , Infant, Newborn , Obstetric Labor Complications/history , Obstetric Labor Complications/mortality , Pregnancy , Puerperal Disorders/history , Puerperal Disorders/mortalityABSTRACT
The reformation as the decisive social change during the first half of the 16th century influenced directly also the organisational forms of the contemporary social welfare and indirectly the development of public health of that time. By evaluation of still existing account health of that time. By evaluation of still existing account-books of the Gemeinen Kasten the changes in the provision of the poor and the development of the old hospitals caused by reformation were investigated. Here the personal influence of Martin Luther is shown.
Subject(s)
Public Health/history , Religion/history , Germany , History, 15th Century , History, 16th CenturyABSTRACT
Explanation of the references and reports of eyewitnesses about the caesarean section performed in Wittenberg of April 21st, 1610. Probably this operation will have been not the first one, but certainly the first medically well documented one on an alive woman.
