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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