Semmelweiss, Ignaz Philipp

Semmelweiss, Ignaz Philipp

(zĕm′ĕl-vīs″)

Hungarian physician, 1818–1865, the discoverer of the mode of transmission of childbed fever (puerperal sepsis) in the 19th century. Semmelweiss is a seminal figure in the history of infection control.

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