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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". [2]
Dr. Semmelweis’s behavior became more and more erratic and he was finally committed to an insane asylum on July 30, 1865. He died there, two weeks later, on Aug. 13, 1865, at the age of 47.
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 ...
- Nicholas Kadar, Roberto Romero, Zoltán Papp
- 10.1016/j.ajog.2018.10.036
- 2018
- 2018/12
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 ...
May 28, 2020 · Within two weeks, Ignaz Semmelweis, the tortured godfather of handwashing, died of generalized sepsis — the same kind of infection that took the lives of countless women who had died at Vienna...
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...
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Mar 29, 2020 · Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865), of Hungary, proposed health care workers wash their hands with an antiseptic to reduce infections - an idea antithetical to medical thinking of the day.
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