The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis by Sherwin B. Nuland

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis

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Sherwin B. Nuland

208 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

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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 th...

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