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is safe ! The germ that kills is itself killed. The 

 mother lives! 



In every case of childbirth, a few minutes' work 

 of this kind and no more puerperal fever in the 

 world. One hundred seventy thousand mothers 

 snatched from death! 



Think of it. Remember it. Tell it to your 

 neighbors. Especially tell it to your doctor! In 

 nine cases out of ten, he is the responsible party! 

 In nine cases out of ten he carries the deadly germ 

 from house to house, from bed to bed. Ignorant, 

 or careless, or both. Wake him up. Open his 

 eyes. Keep them open. 



Sixty years ago, before the germ theory was 

 known, amid the jeers and ridicule of the older 

 physicians, Oliver Wendell Holmes told the world 

 that doctors carry the puerperal fever on their 

 hands and in their clothing from bed to bed. The 

 author of the " Autocrat at The Breakfast Table " 

 lived a hundred years ahead of his times. The 

 world is not up to him yet. But it is coming. Let 

 it come! 



