The Doctors Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis Nuland, Sherwin Last Updated: Mar-12-2015. While his simple reforms worked immediately-childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared-they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end. He is cognizant of the painful privilege it is to be a doctor. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea.
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In contrast, the incidence of this disease in women delivered by hospital midwives was dramatically lower and puerperal fever was quite rare when mothers had their babies born at home.While a few physicians (most notably Alexander Gordon and Oliver Wendell Holmes). Buy The Doctors Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis online, free home delivery. Ign?c Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In 1847, one of every six women whose babies were delivered by the medical students and supervising doctors at Allgemeine Krankenhaus (General Hospital) in Vienna died of puerperal fever (also known as childbed fever). Nuland tells the strange story of Ign?c Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B.
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