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Health May 15, 2015 3:29 PM EDT. On this date in 1850, a prickly Hungarian obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis stepped up to the podium of the Vienna Medical Society’s lecture hall. It was a...
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...
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 have...
Apr 14, 2020 · Here’s how Semmelweis, working in an obstetrics ward in Vienna in the 19th century, made the connection between dirty hands and deadly infection. Benefits of cleanliness, symbolic...
May 21, 2020 · 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.
- Uvi Tyagi, Kailash Chander Barwal
- 10.1007/s12262-020-02386-6
- 2020
- Indian J Surg. 2020 Jun; 82(3): 276-277.
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 ...
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.
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