Semmelweis's practice earned widespread acceptance only years after his death when Louis Pasteur further developed the germ theory of disease, offering a theoretical explanation for Semmelweis's …

Dec 26, 2025 · Ignaz Semmelweis (born July 1, 1818, Buda, Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Budapest, Hungary]—died August 13, 1865, Vienna, Austria) was a Hungarian physician who discovered the …

The Semmelweis reflex or Semmelweis effect is the automatic rejection of facts without consideration, study or experimentation. It is a unique, reflex-like human tendency that automatically rejects new …

Semmelweis is one of the pioneers of evidence-based medicine. He made observations, analyzed the data and introduced measures based on data – propelling medicine forward.

Bacteriological research verified Semmelweis’s claims after his death, and even though his disciples carried on with his clinical research and there was no doubt about the recognition of his...

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician known for his pioneering work in obstetrics and his groundbreaking observations regarding puerperal fever, a severe infection that affected women …

Ignaz Semmelweis was the first doctor to discover the importance for medical professionals of hand washing.

Apr 6, 2017 · Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis demonstrated that the use of disinfectants could reduce the occurrence of puerperal fever in patients in nineteenth century Austria. Puerperal fever is a bacterial …

Sep 15, 2025 · In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865) identified the cause of childbed fever, an illness that claimed the lives of many new mothers. He realized that physicians were spreading …

A collection of printed materials on the discovery of the causes of childbed fever and elaborating aseptic prevention against it by Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis between 1847-1861. Semmelweis proved that …