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“Your doctrine, Professor, is based on upon the corpses of parturient women murdered out of ignornace. If you think my theory wrong, I challenge you to communicate to me your reasons… But should you continue, without having refuted my theory, to teach your purpils the theory of epidemic puerperal fever, I declare you a murderer before God and the world.

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, to Professor Scanzoni. Semmelweiss was the originatior of the idea that the unclean hands of physicians spread disease, … [Read more...]

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