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The doctors' plague : germs, childbed fever, and the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis / Sherwin B. Nuland.

Title
The doctors' plague : germs, childbed fever, and the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis / Sherwin B. Nuland.
Author
Nuland, Sherwin B.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton, c2003.

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191 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
Analyzes how doctor Ignac Semmelweis's reforms of the medical field led to his discovery of the correlation between hand washing and reduced infection, recounting how his work contributed to the establishment of germ theory.
Series Statement
Great discoveries
Uniform Title
Great discoveries.
Subject
  • Semmelweis, Ignác Fülöp
  • Semmelweis, Ignác Fülöp, 1818-1865
  • Sepsis > history
  • History, 19th Century
  • Puerperal Infection > history
  • Puerperal septicemia
  • Asepsis and antisepsis
  • Puerperal Infection
  • Austria
Note
  • "Atlas books."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-191).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0393052990 (hardcover)
LCCN
^^2003011412
OCLC
52295267
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library