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5 days ago · Introduction. Hungarian doctor, Ignaz Semmelweiss was the first person to realise that keeping hands clean can really help prevent diseases being passed on. In this programme we’ll be...
5 days ago · It was in 1847 that Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, first discovered the importance of handwashing after noticing that rates of puerperal fever — a deadly bacterial infection contracted by women during childbirth — in his Vienna hospital were much higher in one ward than the other.
5 days ago · 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 to give his fellow doctors advice, which...
Apr 30, 2024 · The Man from Hungary who saves thousands of women from childbed fever infection. The importance of Social Intelligence is highlighted here.
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May 1, 2024 · John Snow was an English physician known for his seminal studies of cholera and widely viewed as the father of contemporary epidemiology. His best-known studies include his investigation of London’s Broad Street pump outbreak, which occurred in 1854, and his “Grand Experiment,” a study comparing.
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2 days ago · The following research was conducted by Hanna Clutterbuck-Cook and Heather Mumford between 2020 and 2022, using historic course catalogs and other reference material available at the Center for the History of Medicine.
May 3, 2024 · In 1847, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis faced a grim puzzle. There were two maternity wards at the Viennese hospital where he worked, but each had a drastically different maternal mortality rate.
