BIG PROBLEM... SMALL SOLUTION! The Miracle of Hand Washing. Meet Dr IGNAZ PHILIPP SEMMELWEIS.

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis.
(born Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp; 1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865)
was a Hungarian physician of German extraction now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures.
Described as the "savior of mothers", Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever (also known as "childbed fever") could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics.
Puerperal fever was common in mid-19th-century hospitals and often fatal, with mortality at 10%–35%.
Semmelweis proposed the practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions in 1847 while working in Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had three times the mortality of midwives' wards.
[4] He published a book of his findings in Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever. Despite various publications of results where hand washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community.
Some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and Semmelweis could offer no acceptable scientific explanation for his findings.
Semmelweis's practice earned widespread acceptance only years after his death, when Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory and Joseph Lister, acting on the French microbiologist's research, practiced and operated, using hygienic methods, with great success.
In 1865, Semmelweis was committed to an asylum, where he died at age 47 of pyaemia, after being beaten by the guards, only 14 days after he was committed.
THE PROBLEM.
People could not just believe that one of the considered greatest medical challenge of that era could be solved by mare washing of hands?
It sounded to them like witchcraft. Besides had no scientific back up to explain it. Little wonder they seized his license and locked him up in an asylum only to meet with an untimely death.
Today we have the Global Hand Washing Day...cudos to our late Dr Semmelweis. Today as a practice, all Doctors must wash their hands before any surgery and after. Today we are taught to wash hands before eating to prevent food poisoning.
Semmelweis LIVES ON IN EVERYBODY WHO WASH THEIR HANDS BEFORE EATING AND AFTER, AFTER USING THE BATHROOM, etc.
He lives on in Every Doctor!
Thanks for reading.
Yours for great success,
Edward Company.

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  1. CharlesAugust 5, 2020 at 5:30 AM

    Thank you so much for this nice information.

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  2. UnknownJuly 12, 2021 at 4:32 AM

    Forever grateful to people like this one..Read his story in 'Cry and the Covenant' by Morton Thompson.

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