The doctors' plague
germs, childbed fever, and the strange story of Ignac Semmelweis
Examines the work of Ignac Semmelweis, the doctor who discovered how childbed fever, an infection that killed one out of six pregnant mothers in the 1800s, was transmitted from doctor to patient but who wasn't taken seriously by the scientific community because of his abnormal personality and self-destructive habits.
W. W. Norton
2004
9780393326253
book
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| 2796436 | 6282554 | 2387 | 340686 | 481924 | GEH | 226 | GVS0018714 | 618.74 NUL | 618.74 | 1637782573 | 1736800991 |