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Antisepsis
In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that washing hands could save lives. Semmelweis showed that doctors using clean hands to attend to women in childbirth resulted in dramatically reducing the number of new mothers who died from childhood fever. Later in the century Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch would establish and prove the germ theory of disease, but it would be too late for Semmelweis. His work was not accepted; he was outraged. He denounced a number of European obstetricians as irresponsible murderers. His contemporaries, including family, believed he was losing his mind. In 1865, Semmelweis, a pioneer in antisepsis, was committed to an asylum where he died 14 days later, possibly beaten to death by guards. History is not always kind to its great pioneers.
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