Ignaz Semmelweis--Hand washing Pioneer.
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IGnAz SEmmElWEIS – HAnD WASHInG PIonEEr Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (July 1, 1818 – August 13, 1865) was the Hungarian – Austrian physician who demonstrated that puerperal fever (also known as “childbed fever”) was contagious and that its incidence could be drastically reduced by enforcing appropriate hand washing by medical care-givers. He made this discovery in 1847 while head of the Maternity Department of the Vienna Lying-in Hospital.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
دوره 63 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010