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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.

• parturiency
• labor
• labour
• confinement
• lying-in
• travail