By contrast, far fewer were falling ill on the wards where they were under the care of midwives. Looking at the delivery rooms which were supervised by doctors, Semmelweis saw that disproportionate numbers of mothers were succumbing to postpartum infections. Semmelweis came to Vienna from Hungary in the middle of the nineteenth century, where he worked at the capital’s General Hospital. But despite revolutionizing medicine with this advance, some of the ideas of Ignaz Semmelweis proved to be far ahead of his time. These days, tips on handwashing and correct hand hygiene can be found at every turn – echoing a theory first posited in Vienna.
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