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Semmelweis

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Semmelweis
Ignaz Philipp. 1818--65, Hungarian obstetrician, who discovered the cause of puerperal infection and pioneered the use of antiseptics


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Dubois Regional Medical Center, Dubois, Pennsylvania, USA; ([dagger]) University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; and ([double dagger]) Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
A Hungarian physician named Ignac Semmelweis began to suspect that link and insisted that physicians wash their hands in a chemical solution before seeing each patient.
And while ostracized by his 19th-century medical colleagues, and little celebrated today, Hungarian Physician Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis will forever hold a place of great historical importance, for he taught healtcare workers to wash their hands before approaching women in childbirth.
 
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