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    Timeline of Ignaz Semmelweis

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    Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician born in 1818 who discovered that handwashing with chlorine solution could prevent childbed fever in mothers at the Vienna General Hospital. In 1847, after his friend died from an accident during an autopsy, Semmelweis noticed similarities to the symptoms of mothers dying of childbed fever and concluded particles on doctors' hands were spreading disease. When he mandated handwashing, the mortality rate dropped by 90% in under a year. However, he was dismissed for his theories and died in 1865 at an asylum from sepsis.

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    Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician born in 1818 who discovered that handwashing with chlorine solution could prevent childbed fever in mothers at the Vienna General Hospital. In 1847, after his friend died from an accident during an autopsy, Semmelweis noticed similarities to the symptoms of mothers dying of childbed fever and concluded particles on doctors' hands were spreading disease. When he mandated handwashing, the mortality rate dropped by 90% in under a year. However, he was dismissed for his theories and died in 1865 at an asylum from sepsis.

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    Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician born in 1818 who discovered that handwashing with chlorine solution could prevent childbed fever in mothers at the Vienna General Hospital. In 1847, after his friend died from an accident during an autopsy, Semmelweis noticed similarities to the symptoms of mothers dying of childbed fever and concluded particles on doctors' hands were spreading disease. When he mandated handwashing, the mortality rate dropped by 90% in under a year. However, he was dismissed for his theories and died in 1865 at an asylum from sepsis.

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    Timeline of Ignaz Semmelweis

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    Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician born in 1818 who discovered that handwashing with chlorine solution could prevent childbed fever in mothers at the Vienna General Hospital. In 1847, after his friend died from an accident during an autopsy, Semmelweis noticed similarities to the symptoms of mothers dying of childbed fever and concluded particles on doctors' hands were spreading disease. When he mandated handwashing, the mortality rate dropped by 90% in under a year. However, he was dismissed for his theories and died in 1865 at an asylum from sepsis.

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    Timeline of Ignaz Semmelweis

    July 1 1818 Ignaz Semmelweis is born


    Autumn 1837 Semmelweis begins studying law at the University of Vienna
    1838 For unknown reasons, Semmelweis switches to the study of medicine
    1844 Semmelweis was awarded his doctorate in medicine
    1846 He was appointed assistant to Professor Johann Klein in the First Obstetrical Clinic of the Vienna General Hospital
    1847 His friend Jakob Kolletschka had been accidently cut with a scalpel whilst performing a post mortem and died. Jakobs post
    mortem was found to appear similar to those of the women who were dying of childbed fever, Ignaz concluded that it was particles
    on the hands of the surgeons that were causing the deaths, he made them wash their hands in chlorinated lime solution
    1848 The mortality rate had dropped by 90% in less than a year after Ignaz started hand washing
    Unknown Date Semmelweis was dismissed from the hospital for suggesting that all diseases were caused by cleanliness
    1865 Semmelweis was admitted to an asylum after his wife found he had gone crazy writing protests about his dismissal
    1865 He died in the asylum 14 days after being admitted, ironically, from septicaemia.
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