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Doctors' plague : germs, childbed fever, and the strange story of Ignac Semmelweis

text Doctors' plague : germs, childbed fever, and the strange story of Ignac Semmelweis

Summary

Analyzes how doctor Ignac Semmelweis's reforms of the medical field led to his discovery of the correlation between hand washing and reduced infection, recounting how his work contributed to the establishment of germ theory.

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191 p. : 21 cm.
Publisher
W. W. Norton 2003

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 618.74 NUL in Adult Non-fiction Available

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