Ignaz Semmelweis: The Saviour of Mothers
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Ignaz Semmelweis: The Saviour of Mothers

Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865) was a Hungarian doctor who, during his tenure as an assistant professor at the Obstetrics clinic in the Vienna General Hospital, became interested in learning why so many women were dying from puerperal fever, which was colloquially called childbed fever.

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A Fighting Chance: Disease, Public Health, and the Military, Part 1
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A Fighting Chance: Disease, Public Health, and the Military, Part 1

When we think about war and health care our imaginations are immediately drawn to ideas of war wounds, amputations, mobile surgical hospitals, and even psychiatric trauma and PTSD. These are among the most visible marks that war can leave on its participants. But until very recently in human history, war and health care meant something else.

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