Reel TubesMar 17
Heat-up for doctors & curious minds! Dr. Nancy Malek ties Semmelweis' hand‑washing revolution to modern COVID myths and evidence-based care. A must-watch to help patients and challenge assumptions. #COVID #Medicine #PublicHealth #Semmelweis #EvidenceBased #Science #COVIDIsNotOver #Doctors #English
https://vid.zeroes.ca/videos/watch/a3f35871-fad0-4082-9eca-68006957fb97
COVID for Doctors: Semmelweis & Science -- Dr. Nancy Malek

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WilliamLMillerDec 8
I am rewriting the part of my book where Semmelweis goes to experience reinvigoration of “mind and spirit” from the artistic treasures of Venice before making his breakthrough discovery. Preparation for inspiration like Newton and his apple. #Semmelweis #LeisureMatters #History #Science #BeyondSurvival #bookstodon #writersofmastodon
WilliamLMillerNov 27
Now that I’m back in the academic-journal waiting game, I’m settling once more into the second draft of my first book, Beyond Survival: Forgotten Heroes and the Evolution of a New Humanity. That means returning to the mid-19th century when a conceptual leap would stop hospitals from being death traps. At the time, one was even grateful to leave missing limbs. Too many never left at all. #history #ForgottenHero #Semmelweis #Lister #writing
WilliamLMillerOct 3
After finishing rereading Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever by Ignaz Semmelweis, I was once again moved by the last paragraph of the book. #History #bookstodon #Semmelweis #ForgottenHero
WilliamLMillerSep 30
I am rereading Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever (1861). In it, Ignaz Semmelweis prefigured germ theory with a radical idea: disease can have a single preventable cause. That insight reshaped human evolution. It is strange to read this knowing his martyrdom would come only four years later.
#History #BeyondSurvival #semmelweis #bookstodon
Maxi 12x 💉Sep 26

Hier eine Doku über u.a. Ignaz #Semmelweis, den medizinischen Pionier des… Händewaschens vorm Entbinden. Ja, ihr lest richtig.
Noch nicht gesehen, aber ich gehe mal davon aus, den offensichtlichen Transfer zu #Corona und #Lufthygiene wird die Doku nicht geleistet haben.

https://www.zdf.de/video/dokus/wissenschaft-extrem-forschende-die-an-grenzen-gehen-100/wissenschaft-extrem-forschende-die-an-ihre-grenzen-gehen-fatale-experimente-100

@docjosiahboone

Wissenschaft extrem - Forschende, die an ihre Grenzen gehen: Fatale Experimente

Ignaz Semmelweis (Kindbettfieber), Daniel Alcides Carrión (Oroya-Fieber) und Sieur Fréminet (Tauchausrüstung) ließen ihr Leben für ihre rettenden Ideen.

ZDF
WilliamLMillerSep 24

In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis found the insight that disinfectant handwashing could save mothers from childbed fever.

He later revealed the excitement he felt from his vacation to see the great art of Venice prepared him for the sorrow of losing his colleague Prof. Kolletschka — whose tragic, revelatory death showed him the cause.

Beauty gave him strength for truth.

#BrightSpots #FreeWillInAction #HappinessMatters #History #BeyondSurvival #semmelweis #science #medicine #publichealth

bs2Jan 21, 2025
> In the month of March, 1848, the students and professors, including Clinical Assistant Semmelweis, were busy with the military affairs of the revolution, and the deliveries in the first clinic were left almost entirely to chance and the care of the head midwife. Under this policy of non-interference not a single death occurred in that month...
https://archive.org/details/b28978250/page/n1/mode/2up
#Semmelweis #SemmelweisBook #MidWives
A brief study of the contribution of Ignaz Philip Semmelweis to modern medicine : Newton, Richard Cole : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

18 pages

Internet Archive
bs2Jan 17, 2025
I'm taking a statistics class but keep going back to Data visualization. In a little Japanese book for understanding Statistics and probability there is a small "aside" column that mentions Semmelweis. That's what sparked my interest: Fascinating to think of his story compared to the stories of William Harvey and John Snow. Is it proximity to power(kings?) or information design that saves people that disturb current habits?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_mortality_rates_of_puerperal_fever#Yearly_mortality_rates_for_birthgiving_women_1784%E2%80%931849
#Semmelweis #DataVis
Ignaz Semmelweis - Wikipedia

bs2Jan 16, 2025
Of course there's an R repo:
> That the doctors didn't wash their hands increased the proportion of deaths by between 6.7 and 10 percentage points, according to a 95% confidence interval.. Semmelweis had solid evidence that handwashing was a simple but highly effective procedure that could save many lives.
> The tragedy is.. The medical community largely rejected his discovery and in 1849 he was forced to leave the Vienna General Hospital for good.
https://rpubs.com/Jennifer_L_Smith/Handwashing_Project
#Semmelweis
RPubs - Dr. Semmelweis and the Discovery of Handwashing