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8. Aug. 2012 · The doctors' plague : germs, childbed fever, and the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis. by. Nuland, Sherwin B. Publication date. 2004. Topics. Semmelweis, Ignác Fülöp, 1818-1865, Puerperal septicemia, Asepsis and antisepsis. Publisher. New York : W.W. Norton.
Before the discovery of bacteria and bacterial diseases and before Pasteur, Lister and Koch, the mid-19th century Viennese physician Ignac Semmelweis insisted that doctors should wash their hands before examining patients. Although his observations were largely ignored in his lifetime, Semmelweis is remembered for this now commonplace practice.
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1. Jan. 2003 · With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately—childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared—they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.
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1. Apr. 2005 · Review: The Doctors’ Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis. Robert B. Smith. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 60, Issue 2, April 2005, Pages 232–234, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jri028. Published:
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The updated essay on the life and work of Ignaz Semmelweis attempts to situate his tragic career within the context of Austrian imperial politics, the rise of the Second Viennese Medical School, and the employment of pre-bacteriological beliefs based on miasma and contagion.
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Summary. In 1847, one of every six women whose babies were delivered by the medical students and supervising doctors at Allgemeine Krankenhaus (General Hospital) in Vienna died of puerperal fever (also known as childbed fever).
Published 2003. History, Medicine. TLDR. The revealing narrative of one of the key turning points in medical history is revealed as Ignac Semmelweis is remebered for the now commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. Expand. No Paper Link Available. Save to Library. Create Alert. Cite.
