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Ignaz Semmelweis: Contemporary Reaction to Ignaz Semmelweis, Jakob Kolletschka, Lajos Markusovszky

Ignaz Semmelweis: Contemporary Reaction to Ignaz Semmelweis, Jakob Kolletschka, Lajos Markusovszky


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Chapters: Contemporary Reaction to Ignaz Semmelweis, Jakob Kolletschka, Lajos Markusovszky. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (July 1, 1818 August 13, 1865; in Hungarian Semmelweis Ignc Flp or slightly "internationalized" Ignac Semmelweis), was a Hungarian physician described as the "savior of mothers", who discovered by 1847 that the incidence of puerperal fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection (by means of hand washing with chlorinated lime solution) in obstetrical clinics. Puerperal fever (or childbed fever) was common in mid-19th-century hospitals and often fatal, with mortality at 10%35%. Semmelweis postulated the theory of washing with "chlorinated lime solutions" in 1847 while working in Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had three times the mortality of midwives' wards. He published a book of his findings in childbed fever in Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever. Despite various publications of results where hand-washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's practice earned widespread acceptance only years after his death, when Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory. In 1865, a nervous breakdown (or possibly Alzheimer's) landed him in an asylum, where Semmelweis died of injuries, at age 47. Teresia Mller and Josef Semmelweis, the parents of Ignaz Semmelweis Ignaz Semmelweis as a child in 1830Ignaz Semmelweis was born on July 1, 1818 in the Tabn, an area of Budapest, Hungary (then part of the Habsburg Empire). He was the fifth child out of ten of a prosperous grocer family of Josef and Teresia Mller Semmelweis. The family was German-speaking and perhaps Jewish. His father, Josef Semmelweis (17781846), was born in Eisenstadt (Hu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=75319


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156281413
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 38
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156281415
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Contemporary Reaction to Ignaz Semmelweis, Jakob Kolletschka, Lajos Markusovszky
  • Width: 229 mm


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