Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, delivered babies in - TopicsExpress



          

Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, delivered babies in the Vienna General Hospital. Nearly 20% of the mothers under the doctors’ care in that ward died following childbirth. Dr. Semmelweis instituted a practice which reduced that mortality rate to 1.3%. You take this practice for granted now, but the medical community dismissed his results. What practice do you think Dr. Semmelweis attempted to introduce to medicine? Dr. Semmelweis made his discovery in 1847. At that time there was no germ theory to support his findings. Despite a lifetime of attempting to promote simple hand washing, his notion was rejected & ridiculed. Not living to see his work appreciated, Dr. Semmelweis eventually had a nervous breakdown & died in an insane asylum.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 07:43:29 +0000

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