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Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (German: [ˈɪɡnaːts ˈzɛml̩vaɪs]; Hungarian: Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp [ˈsɛmmɛlvɛjs ˈiɡnaːts ˈfyløp]; 1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian physician and scientist of German descent, who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures, and was described as the "saviour of mothers".
Jun 28, 2024 · Ignaz Semmelweis (born July 1, 1818, Buda, Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Budapest, Hungary]—died August 13, 1865, Vienna, Austria) was a Hungarian physician who discovered the cause of puerperal (childbed) fever and introduced antisepsis into medical practice.
Jan 12, 2015 · Semmelweis wanted to figure out why so many women in maternity wards were dying from puerperal fever — commonly known as childbed fever.
Apr 14, 2020 · Ignaz Semmelweis, the doctor who discovered the disease-fighting power of hand-washing in 1847. Published: April 14, 2020 8:20am EDT. One of the front-line defenses individuals have against the...
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May 21, 2020 · Hungarian obstetrician Ignac Semmelweis (1818–1865) was one of the earliest clinical investigators of modern medical science. In nineteenth century Europe, puerperal fever (childbed fever) was a major clinical and public health problem with very high maternal mortality.
1818 - 1865. The father of infection control. Alamy. Ignaz Semmelweis was the first doctor to discover the importance for medical professionals of hand washing. In the 19 th century, it was...
Jul 21, 2018 · Ignaz Semmelweis is known as the nineteenth-century doctor who discovered the cause of childbed fever, the devastating illness that often struck women shortly after childbirth and killed scores of mothers and babies. His solution was that doctors should wash their hands.
Ignaz Semmelweis was a 19th century Hungarian obstetrician who spent his life trying and failing to convince surgeons to wash their hands. Famous for testing and observing the spread of disease, Semmelweis is credited with uncovering the role of hygiene in the prevention of disease outbreaks.
Ignaz Semmelweis’s death certificate (1865-08-19) by UnknownHNM Semmelweis Museum, Library and Archive of the History of Medicine His early death can be attributed to his insidiously spreading...
Semmelweis traced the source of the infection in October to a woman who had a purulent “medullary carcinoma of the uterus” and, thereafter, required attendants to wash their hands with the chlorine solution between examining patients, and not only when the attendants first entered the labor ward.
