With this initiative, he has proven the contagious nature of childbed fever.

通过这举措，他证明了褥热传染性。

Holmes noticed a pattern: when a patient dies of childbed fever, a doctor performs an autopsy.

福尔摩斯注意到个模：个病人死于褥热时，医生会进行尸检。

So you say women who have inflammation also come down with childbed fever, therefore the inflammation caused the fever.

所以你说有炎症女人也得了褥热，所以炎症引起了发烧。

It's 1843, and a debate is raging among physicians about one of the most common killers of women: childbed fever.

现在是 1843 年，医生们正在激烈争论女性最常见手之：褥热。

Childbed fever strikes within days of giving birth, killing more than 70% of those infected— and nobody knows what causes it.

褥热会在分娩后几天内发作，导致 70% 以上感染者死亡——而且没人知道是什么原因引起。

Having observed abdominal inflammation in patients who go on to develop the fever, he claims this inflammation is the cause of childbed fever.

在观察到继续发烧患者腹部炎症后，他声称这种炎症是褥热原因。

But the midwife was attending a sick woman in the village, infected Katiousha with puerperal fever, and the child, a boy, was taken to a foundling asylum where, she was told, he died immediately after his arrival there.

但是助士在村里照顾位生病妇女，她把褥热传染给了卡秋沙，这个男孩是个男孩，被带到家弃儿收容所，她被告知，他到达那里后立即死亡。