15 April 2020
The Man Who Discovered that Handwashing Saves Lives
This is the sad story of Ignaz Semmelweis (July 1, 1818 – August 13, 1865), born into a prosperous family of merchants in Buda, who soon became aware of a mysterious phenomenon that took the lives of many mothers shortly after giving birth in one of the two maternity clinics associated with the hospital he was working. Meet the man the scientific community mistook for discovering that washing hands saves lives