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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...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
Biography. Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis was born on the 1st of July 1818 in Buda. The house in the Tabán neighbourhood where he came into the world was rented by his father, József, and accommodated...
