Charles E. Rosenberg

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“... {{w|Charles Delucena Meigs|Charles D. Meigs}} and Hugh Hodge, Philadelphia's leading teachers of {{w|obstetrics}} in the 1840s and 1850s were vociferous in rejecting the suggestion that {{w|Postpartum infections|puerperal fever}} might be contagious, indeed often spread by the obstetrician himself ... The intensity of their response suggests that something more than mere intellectual difference was involved; one of the roots of their hostility to a contagionist point of view lay in the threat it implied for the physician's status, especially in relation to female patients.”

“Far into the nineteenth century, Washington remained a small, rather provincial city. Life was seasonal. Oppressed by heat and malaria during the summer, the capital did not awake to its foreshortened and unnaturally frenetic life until fall and the convening of Congress.”