The doctors' plague: germs, childbed fever, and the strange story of Ignac Semmelweis

Abstract

Ignac Semmelweis is remebered for the now commonplace notion that must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. This is the revealing narrative of one of the key turning points in medical history.

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