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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".
May 17, 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.
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...
Who was Ignaz Semmelweis? Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian obstetrician who first showed that, in all but a few cases, puerperal fever—also known as childbed fever—was caused by an infection introduced into the birth canal from outside, which could be prevented by chlorinous disinfection of the hands of the obstetricians and midwives before ...
May 15, 2015 · On this date in 1850, a prickly Hungarian obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis stepped up to the podium of the Vienna Medical Society’s lecture hall. It was a grand and ornately decorated room...
Jan 12, 2015 · The year was 1846, and our would-be hero was a Hungarian doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis. Semmelweis was a man of his time, according to Justin Lessler, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins ...
Apr 14, 2020 · In fact, it was 19th-century Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis who, after observational studies, first advanced the idea of “hand hygiene” in medical settings.
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’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...
Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis, (born July 1, 1818, Buda, Hung., Austrian Empire—died August 13, 1865, Vienna, Austria), Hungarian-born Austrian physician. As an assistant at Vienna’s obstetric clinic at a time when death rates from puerperal fever were as high as 30% in European maternity hospitals, Semmelweis ...
