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  • n  concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

  • Because the great majority of women bear this natural ordeal bravely, they have made no concerted demand for relief in childbed nor have more than a handful of pioneer doctors .
  • The drug which cured young Roosevelt seems to be a specific cure for all streptococcic infectionsseptic sore throat, childbed fever, postabortal septicemia.
  • Though doctors can cure a growing list of bacterial diseasespneumonia, meningitis, streptococcic infections, erysipelas, childbed fever, gonorrhea, etc.

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