You can’t go far in reading fiction, biographies or family memoir written before modern sepsis and antibiotics without running into phrases like: “his/her mother/wife died at childbirth. . . died giving birth to . . . . died of childbed…
You can’t go far in reading fiction, biographies or family memoir written before modern sepsis and antibiotics without running into phrases like: “his/her mother/wife died at childbirth. . . died giving birth to . . . . died of childbed…
When we moved to Knoxville in 2000 from my husband’s native Italy, Maurizio was quite fluent in English, but not, as we shall see, up on the American medical system. I was relating the adventures of my new friend Susan…