Which of the following physicians demonstrated that puerperal fever, a disease that was responsible for the death of women in childbirth, was carried from patient to patient by doctors?

A. Joseph Lister
B. Louis Pasteur
C. Edward Jenner
D. Oliver Wendell Holmes


D. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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