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That said, it was Dr. Semmelweis who ordered his medical students and junior physicians to wash their hands in a chlorinated lime solution until the smell of the putrid bodies they dissected...
May 21, 2020 · The hand-washing practice for 1 year led to unprecedented decrease in maternal mortality. It enabled Semmelweis to establish a strong, specific, temporal causal association between unclean hands and puerperal fever.
- Uvi Tyagi, Kailash Chander Barwal
- 10.1007/s12262-020-02386-6
- 2020
- Indian J Surg. 2020 Jun; 82(3): 276-277.
Jan 12, 2015 · The Doctor Who Championed Hand-Washing And Briefly Saved Lives. Ignaz Semmelweis washing his hands in chlorinated lime water before operating. This is the story of a man whose ideas could...
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...
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...
Ignaz Semmelweis Was Ridiculed for Advocating Hand-washing for Doctors. By: Nathan Chandler. Ignaz Semmelweis washes his hands in chlorinated lime water before operating. He discovered that doing this would reduce the rate of maternity deaths. Bettman/Getty Images.
In 1847, he proposed hand washing with chlorinated lime solutions at Vienna General Hospital 's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had three times the mortality of midwives' wards. [3] .
