Alexander Gordon (physician)

Alexander Gordon (1752-1799) was a renowned Edwardian obstetrician best known for being the first person to describe the infectious nature of childbirth fever in his paper of 1795 entitled Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen.[1][2] His remarkable paper gave insights into the contagious nature of puerperal fever more than half a century before Ignaz Semmelweis and before the science of bacteria was known about.[3]

Gordon was born in 1752 in Strachan, Scotland. He studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen's Marischal College.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Shearer, Kyle. "Alexander Gordon (1752 - 1799) - Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society". www.med-chi.co.uk.
  2. ↑ "200-year-old medical manuscript given new life - News - The University of Aberdeen". www.abdn.ac.uk.
  3. ↑ Smith, Lesley (2010). "Dr Alexander Gordon of Aberdeen". Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. 36 (4): 253. doi:10.1783/147118910793048548. PMID 21067645.
  4. ↑ Dunn, P. M (1998). "Dr Alexander Gordon (1752-99) and contagious puerperal fever". Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition. 78 (3): F232–F233. doi:10.1136/fn.78.3.F232.


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