The Doctor Vienna Refused to Believe
In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis stood in the maternity ward of Vienna General Hospital, haunted by a devastating puzzle. One in...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Numbers 21:4b-9.
In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis stood in the maternity ward of Vienna General Hospital, haunted by a devastating puzzle. One in six mothers in the doctors' ward died of childbed fever. In the midwives' ward next door, the death rate was a fraction of that. After months of investigation, Semmelweis discovered the terrible truth: the doctors themselves were carrying death on their hands, moving straight from autopsy tables to delivering babies without washing.…
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