The Doctor Who Washed His Hands
In 1847, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis stood in a Vienna maternity ward and watched mothers die. One in ten women who delivered babies in his clinic...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on John 8:32.
In 1847, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis stood in a Vienna maternity ward and watched mothers die. One in ten women who delivered babies in his clinic succumbed to childbed fever — and no one could explain why. The women begged to deliver in the streets rather than enter the hospital. Semmelweis noticed something the others missed: doctors were walking straight from autopsies to deliveries without washing their hands.…
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