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Ignaz Semmelweis
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Terms in this set (9)
Who was ignaz A doctor in the mind 1850's.
semmelweis?
At that time what They died from childbed fever a few days after giving
happened to many birth, nobody knew what caused it.
women in hospital?
That they went straight from dissecting a dead body
What did semmelweis
to delivering a baby without washing their hands. He
notice about his medical
wondered if they were carrying to the cause of
students?
disease from the corpses to the patients.
What happened to Another doctor cut himself while working on a body
another doctor that made and died from symptoms which were identical to
semmelweis realise the childbed fever.
fever was caused by
something passed on?
What did semmelweis That they'd wash their hands before delivering babys,
insist to his medical immediately fewer mothers died from the fever.
students?
How did semmelweis try Talked to other doctors, he thought evidence would
and get his ideas prove to them that childbed fever was spread by
excepted? doctors, but his ideas were mocked.
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Ignaz Semmelweis
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Terms in this set (9)
Who was ignaz A doctor in the mind 1850's.
semmelweis?
At that time what They died from childbed fever a few days after giving
happened to many birth, nobody knew what caused it.
women in hospital?
That they went straight from dissecting a dead body
What did semmelweis
to delivering a baby without washing their hands. He
notice about his medical
wondered if they were carrying to the cause of
students?
disease from the corpses to the patients.
What happened to Another doctor cut himself while working on a body
another doctor that made and died from symptoms which were identical to
semmelweis realise the childbed fever.
fever was caused by
something passed on?
What did semmelweis That they'd wash their hands before delivering babys,
insist to his medical immediately fewer mothers died from the fever.
students?
How did semmelweis try Talked to other doctors, he thought evidence would
and get his ideas prove to them that childbed fever was spread by
excepted? doctors, but his ideas were mocked.
https://quizlet.com/1064478721/ignaz-semmelweis-flash-cards/?new 1/2
