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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
by Nuland, Sherwin B.
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Overview
Overview
Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ign c Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ign c Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately--childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared--they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Nuland, Sherwin B.
- ISBN: 9780393326253
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.02 x 0.52
- Number Of Pages: 205
- Publication Year: 2004