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Doctors Destroyed the Colleague Who Told Them to Wash Their Hands
19th Century

Doctors Destroyed the Colleague Who Told Them to Wash Their Hands

A Hungarian doctor solved one of medicine's greatest mysteries, then watched his colleagues destroy him for suggesting they wash their hands.

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Medical History19th CenturyAustrian EmpireScientific DiscoveryInstitutional ResistancePublic HealthMaternal MortalityIgnaz SemmelweisGerm TheoryProfessional Persecution

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