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Ignaz Semmelweis
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian medical doctor and scientist of German descent who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures and was described as the "saviour of mothers". Postpartum infection, also known as puerperal fever or childbed fever, consists of any bacterial infection of the reproductive tract following birth and in the 19th century was common and often fatal. Semmelweis dem…
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science · Early pioneer of antiseptic procedures · physician · botanist · university teacher · gynecologist · obstetrician · hygienist · also Ignaz Semmelweis, Ignatius Philipp Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, Semmelweis
Born 1 July 1818 · Died 13 August 1865 · Q59736
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2022· 1 entry
2020· 4 entries
The Daily Star: Ignaz Semmelweis
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Observer: Google Doodle Honors Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, Champion of Handwashing
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CNET: Google Doodle honors handwashing pioneer Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis
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9to5google: Google Doodle honors Ignaz Semmelweis and reminds you to wash your hands
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2019· 1 entry
News Medical: Ignaz Semmelweis' statue unveiled at MedUni Vienna
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2008· 1 entry
An image of Semmelweis was selected as the obverse of an Austrian commemorative coin
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1981· 1 entry
At the Hartman Theater in Stamford, Connecticut
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1977· 1 entry
At the Studio Arena Theater in Buffalo, New York with Lewis J
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1936· 1 entry
(English versions: The Life and Work of Semmelweis, tr
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1865· 4 entries
Died 1865-08-13.
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Nearly 20 years after his breakthrough, he was committed to the Landesirrenanstalt Döbling (provincial lunatic asylum)
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The increasingly outspoken Semmelweis allegedly suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to an asylum by his colleagues
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János Balassa wrote a document referring Semmelweis to a mental institution
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1861· 1 entry
Semmelweis published his main work Die Ätiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers (German for "The Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever")
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1857· 1 entry
To become professor of obstetrics at the University of Zurich
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1856· 1 entry
Semmelweis's assistant Josef Fleischer reported the successful results of hand washing activities at St
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1855· 1 entry
But only because the Viennese authorities overruled the wishes of the Hungarians, as Braun did not speak Hungarian
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1854· 1 entry
Semmelweis applied for the position
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1851· 1 entry
Semmelweis virtually eliminated the disease
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1850· 1 entry
Just after returning to Pest, Semmelweis found one fresh corpse, another patient in severe agony, and four others seriously ill with the disease
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1848· 2 entries
“s work. The lecture was presented before the Royal Medical and Surgical Society in London and a review published in The Lancet, a prominent medical journal. A few months later, another of Semmelweis”
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A series of tumultuous revolutions swept across Europe
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1847· 2 entries
Following the death of his good friend Jakob Kolletschka, who had been accidentally poked with a student's scalpel while performing a post mortem examination
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Proposed hand washing with chlorinated lime solutions at Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had thrice the mortality of midwives' wards
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1844· 1 entry
Studied at University of Vienna (1844).
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1841· 1 entry
Studied at Eötvös Loránd University (1841).
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1835· 1 entry
Studied at Budapesti Egyetemi Katolikus Gimnázium (1835).
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1818· 2 entries
Born 1818-07-01.
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Ignaz Semmelweis was born on 1 July 1818 in the Tabán neighbourhood of Buda, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire.
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1806· 2 entries
And, in the same year, he opened a wholesale business for spices and general consumer goods
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József Semmelweis was granted citizenship in Buda in 1806 and, in the same year, he opened a wholesale business for spices and general consumer goods.
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