Ignaz Semmelweis discovered in 1847 that hand-wash with a solution of chlorinated lime reduced the incidence of fatal childbed fever tenfold in maternity...
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The Semmelweis reflex or "Semmelweis effect" is a metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts...
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Timeline of the 19th century (category Contemporary history timelines)
publish Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. Ignaz Semmelweis proposes hand washing as a way to stop the spread of diseases. 1848–1849: Second Anglo-Sikh...
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Bacteria (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
disease. Before them, Ignaz Semmelweis and Joseph Lister had realised the importance of sanitised hands in medical work. Semmelweis, who in the 1840s formulated...
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work of Ignaz Semmelweis and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., hospitals practised surgery under unsanitary conditions. Surgeons of the time referred to the "good...
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Hygiene (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
19th century by two pioneers of hand hygiene: the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis who worked in Vienna, Austria, and Florence Nightingale, the English...
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History of medicine (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
was regressing to vitalism. In 1847 in Vienna, Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865), dramatically reduced the death rate of new mothers (due to childbed fever)...
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History of hospitals (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Freiherr von Rokitansky, Josef Škoda, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, and Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis. Basic medical science expanded and specialization advanced. Furthermore...
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