This Hungarian man died in a mental asylum in 1865, ironically from a cut in his finger which brought on a disease similar to the one he had helped prevent.
This Hungarian man died in a mental asylum in 1865, ironically from a cut in his finger which brought on a disease similar to the one he had helped prevent. Twenty years earlier, he began working in the first obstetrical clinic of the Vienna general hospital. He noticed that about ten percent of women were dying of puerperal fever, and realized the cause was doctors going directly from the morgue to the delivery room. After introducing aseptic cleaning in chlorinated lime solution, the mortality rate dropped to almost zero, but he met with opposition and was dismissed. FTP, identify this misunderstood pioneer whose ideas were later popularized by Joseph Lister.
This Hungarian man died in a mental asylum in 1865, ironically from a cut in his finger which brought on a disease similar to the one he had helped prevent.
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis