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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Dec 22 2009

Notes From the Rare Book Room –A Private Pestilence

Puerperal fever, often called childbed fever, ravaged obstetrics patients in the U.S., Britain, and Europe throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.  Its symptoms included severe abdominal pain, fever, and debility and carried a mortality rate as high as seventy percent during some epidemics.  Even though the greatest incidences occurred in close-quartered  “lying-in hospitals,” (state-supported maternityContinue reading “Notes From the Rare Book Room –A Private Pestilence”

Dec 19 2009

Congratulations to our graduating student employees

Barbara Harvey, Reference student assistant received her M.A. in Library and Information Sciences. Barbara currently teaches Biology at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids and will eventually pursue a position as an academic librarian. Ashley Croghan received a B.S. in Integrative Physiology with a minor in Spanish. Ahsley will be working with Campus Crusade forContinue reading “Congratulations to our graduating student employees”