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