Hungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures ; introduced hand disinfection standards, in obstetrical clinics
According to Wikipedia, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was an ethnic German-Hungarian physician and scientist born in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire, now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Described as the "saviour of mothers", Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics. Puerperal fever was common in mid-19th-century hospitals and often fatal. Semmelweis proposed the practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions in 1847 while working in Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had three times the mortality of midwives' wards. He published a book of his findings in Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever.
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Ignaz Semmelweis is most known for their academic work in the field of medical. They are also known for their academic work in the fields of and biology.
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