He himself had been born after the Restoration, only to have his mother die, as hers had, in childbed. |
The most terrible ghost in Babylonia was that of a woman who had died in childbed. |
Close by, a Kaffir was digging a grave for a Zulu woman who had died in childbed. |
Such was the devastation of puerperal, or childbed, fever, which stormed European and American maternity wards for over a century. |
Is there any real evidence that women in childbed were more prone to the nightmare, though? |
This was one of Stubbs's first works, and his earliest practice of dissection – using the body of a woman who died in childbed. |