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The Doctors' Plague

Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis

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The Doctors' Plague

Written by: Sherwin B. Nuland
Narrated by: Peter Lerman
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Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience.

Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately - childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared - they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.

©2003 Sherwin B. Nuland (P)2020 Tantor Biological Sciences Medicine & Health Care Industry Professionals & Academics Science World
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