22.5 x 17.8 in. (57.2 x 45.2 cm.) This lithograph is from the Rilke Portfolio by Ben Shahn, which is the artist's response to the work of Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). Like many poets ...

He performed autopsies on women who had died from so-called “childbed fever” or “puerperal fever” in an attempt to understand what killed them. He noted that women who gave birth outside ...

House of the Dragon is HBO's prequel series to Game of Thrones. Set hundreds of years earlier, the show follows the inner ...

Ignaz Phillippe Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician practicing in a large Vienna hospital, asserts that women die of childbed fever because they have been infected by decayed matter transmitted by ...

The claimants to the Iron Throne are supported by their factions, known as the Greens and the Blacks in lore and in the show's canon. Rhaenyra and Aegon have different mothers but the same father, i.e ...

At the beginning of the episode, she ominously tells Rhaenyra that “the childbed is our battlefield”, which is enough to let you know that blood and gore is on the way. Sure enough ...

In the 19th century, it was common for women to die from an illness contracted during or after childbirth, known as childbed fever. While working at an obstetric department in Vienna, Austria ...

She married Sir William Cecil on 13th January 1589 but died in childbed on 1st May 1591 aged 16 and was buried in St Nicholas's chapel. Her husband later became Lord Burghley and 2nd Earl of Exeter ...

and Elizabeth his wife) the truly virtuous and loving wife of Dr John Blow, who, to the great grief of all her relations, died in childbed the 29th of October 1683, aged 30. Near this was a stone for ...

“Wholly disabled in childbed”, the note said. “Not able to support her bastard child.” Elizabeth was a servant, so it doesn’t require much imagination to guess how she might have come to ...