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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)

By Sherwin B. Nuland

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2004
ISBN
0393052990, 9780393052992
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
595 kB (609028 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2021-05-25 12:52:35

Description

An analysis of nineteenth-century Viennese doctor Ignac Semmelweis's reforms of the medical establishment describes his discovery of the correlation between hand washing and reduced infection, recounting how his early work contributed to the subsequent establishment of germ theory.

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