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  1. 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. Educated at the universities of Pest and Vienna, Semmelweis received his doctor’s ...

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  2. May 21, 2020 · Abstract. 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. It was thought to be caused by miasma, epidemicity, or the Will ...

    • Uvi Tyagi, Kailash Chander Barwal
    • 10.1007/s12262-020-02386-6
    • 2020
    • Indian J Surg. 2020 Jun; 82(3): 276-277.
  3. Ignaz Semmelweis was born on 1 July 1818 in the Tabán neighbourhood of Buda, Kingdom of Hungary, [5] [A] Austrian Empire. He was the fifth child out of 10 of the prosperous grocer family of József Semmelweis and Teréz Müller. Of German ancestry, his father was an ethnic German born in Kismarton, in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Eisenstadt ...

  4. Apr 14, 2020 · Ignaz Philip Semmelweis (1818-1865) Universal Images Group via Getty Images. After becoming disillusioned with the study of law, Semmelweis moved to the study of medicine, graduating with a ...

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  5. Ignaz Semmelweis was the first doctor to discover the importance for medical professionals of hand washing.In the 19 th century, it was common for women to die from an illness contracted during or ...

  6. Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865) was a faculty member of the Lying-In Hospital in Vienna, Austria, which consisted of two obstetrical services that alternated admissions on a daily basis. The first service was operated by physicians and medical students; the second by midwives.

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  8. Jul 21, 2018 · 5 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. 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.

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