Semmelweis

SEMMELWEIS by best-selling author is the Life and Work of pioneering physician Ignaz P. Semmelweis, who discovered the causes and means of prevention of the pandemic of his day, childbed fever. Called the "Father of Antisepsis," he was largely ignored, placed in an asylum and murdered. What lessons do his extraordinary life & work carry forward to today? This book details his life from his beginnings in a small town in Budapest, Hungary through the early years of his medical career in Vienn...