The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, And The Strange Story Of Ignác Semmelweis by Sherwin B. Nuland, Sherwin B. Nuland
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, And The Strange Story Of Ignác Semmelweis
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Sherwin B. Nuland, Sherwin B. Nuland
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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, And The Strange Story Of Ignác Semmelweis

Great Discoveries

Sherwin B. Nuland, Sherwin B. Nuland

192 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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An analysis of nineteenth-century Viennese doctor Ignac Semmelweis's reforms of the medical establishment describes his discovery of the correlation between hand washing and reduced infection, recounting how his early work contributed to the subse...

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