Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis
1818-1865
Hungarian Physician
Ignaz Semmelweis was the first to recognize that the hands of physicians carried the dreaded puerperal, or childbirth, fever. Although his observ...
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By the early nineteenth century, the field of obstetrics had emerged from the arena of general surgery as an independent area of specialization. Among the contributors to the new field, the Hungarian ...
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Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis
Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis