bs2Jun 10, 2024
> Ignaz Semmelweis was another pioneer of disease transmission who was also initially ignored as having proposed things too radical for the establishment of the time to accept. Working in Vienna in 1847, he showed that handwashing greatly reduced deaths by childbed fever in a maternity clinic
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ina.13070#ina13070-bib-0003
#IgnazSemmelweis #Semmelweis #HandWashing #ChildBedFever
Crossword ManJan 15, 2023

I'm reading #SiddhartaMukherjee's new book The Song of the Cell.

My jaw just dropped at the story of #IgnazSemmelweis, who discovered #Antisepsis well before #JosephLister, but whose hand-washing protocols were eventually rejected by the scientific community.

How much this was the result of his own failings and how much those of others, you be the judge.

#Obstetrics #Midwifery #Childbirth #PuerperalFever #ChildbedFever

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives