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

通过这一举措，他证明了产褥热的传染性。

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

所以你说有炎症的女人也得了产褥热，所以炎症引起了发烧。

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

福尔摩斯注意到一个模式：当一个病人死于产褥热时，医生会进行尸检。

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的杀手之一：产褥热。

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

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

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

在观察到继续发烧的患者的腹部炎症后，他声称这种炎症是产褥热的原因。