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May 15, 2015 · In 1850, Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives with three words: wash your hands. Health May 15, 2015 3:29 PM EDT. On this date in 1850, a prickly Hungarian obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis...
Apr 14, 2020 · Published: April 14, 2020 8:20am EDT. One of the front-line defenses individuals have against the spread of the coronavirus can feel decidedly low-tech: hand-washing. In fact, it was 19th-century...
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...
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.
Remembrance. Bacteriological research verified Semmelweis’s claims after his death, and even though his disciples carried on with his clinical research and there was no doubt about the...
Apr 22, 2020 · Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor, saved countless lives by being the first to introduce mandatory hand washing for physicians. by Tibi Puiu. April 22, 2020 - Updated on May 6, 2023. in...
