The variability in maternal mortality may be the effect of concomitant outbreaks of erysipelas,scarlatina, and sore throat, which are caused by bacteria that can also cause childbed fever.
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There are considerable outbreaks of typhoid of a most virulent type, and epidemics ofscarlatina.
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It causes fevers, rheumatism,scarlatina, asthma, inflammation of the lungs.
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By 1839, he was making the same point aboutscarlatina.
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His separation ofscarlatinafrom measles was a medical breakthrough.
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