EPISODE · Mar 21, 2018 · 36 MIN
Ignaz Semmelweis and the War on Handwashing
from Stuff You Missed in History Class · host iHeartPodcasts
Ignaz Semmelweis made a connection between hand hygiene and the prevention of childbed fever in the 19th century. He wasn’t taken seriously then, but today he’s known as everything from the father of infection control to the conqueror of childbed fever. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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