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

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Sherwin B. Nuland

191 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

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Ignac Semmelweis is remebered for the now commonplace notion that must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. This is the revealing narrative of one of the key turning points in...

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