Nuland, Sherwin B., - The Doctors' Plague: germs, childbed fever and the strange story of Ignac Semmelweis.

NY, Norton, nd. VG PB advance reading copy. Semmelweis is remembered for the now commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In. mid 19th century Vienna this was a subversive. Deaths from childbed fever were exploding. His simple reforms threatened the medical establishment and he failed to overturn the status quo.

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