Semmelweiss Medical Museum
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The Semmelweiss Medical Museum is housed in the former home of the doctor Ignác Semmelweiss who...See more
The Semmelweiss Medical Museum is housed in the former home of the doctor
Ignác Semmelweiss who discovered the importance of washing one's hands
after surgery. He was deemed, "Mothers' Savior", because he
realized that doctors were delivering babies after preforming surgery, and
parts of the corpses got into the blood stream of the mothers, causing
blood poisoning. Sometimes more than 30% of delivering mothers would die in
a month when delivered by doctors, as opposed to 3% by midwives.
