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Ignaz Semmelweis

Google gives a deserved nod today to Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-65). Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician whose work demonstrated that hand-washing could drastically reduce the number of women dying after childbirth. This work took place in the 1840s, while he was Director of the maternity clinic at the Vienna General Hospital in Austria.

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