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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Hans Selye, Joseph Stefan, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Christian Doppler, Ernst Mach, Ignaz Semmelweis, Heinz von Foerster, Hedy Lamarr, Ferdinand Blumentritt, Heinz Falk, Ronald Richter, Karl von Terzaghi, Ingo Morth, Bernhard von Wullerstorf-Urbair, Friedrich Hopfner, Karl Landsteiner, Odo Josef Struger, List of Austrian scientists, Eugen Sanger, Jan Evangelista Purkyn, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Johannes Cuspinian, Herbert A. Wagner, Gottfried Schatz, Oswald Menghin, Georg Joseph Kamel, Otto Frankel, Herbert W. Franke, Joseph Gerber, Karl Ledersteger, Andreas von Ettingshausen, Count Alois von Beckh Widmanstatten, Annie France-Harrar, Conrad Haas, Joseph Maria Pernter, Norbert Bischofberger, Marian Wolfgang Koller, Rudolphina Menzel, Herbert Lochs, Eugen Steinach, Ludwig Haberlandt, Viktor Kaplan, Alfred Merz, Walter Bitterlich, Johann Georg Hagen, Adolf Zsigmondy, Franz Reinzer, Johann August Georg Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvar, Irene Bredt, Camill Heller, Johannes Stabius, Willibald Peter Prasthofer, Adolf von Liebenberg, Johann Sahulka. Excerpt: Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (July 1, 1818 - August 13, 1865) was a Hungarian physician now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Described as the "savior of mothers," Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics. Puerperal 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 Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever. Despite various publications of results where han...
