The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries): Germs, Childbed Fever and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis by Sherwin B. Nuland, Sherwin B. Nuland

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries): Germs, Childbed Fever and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
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Sherwin B. Nuland, Sherwin B. Nuland

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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries): Germs, Childbed Fever and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis

Sherwin B. Nuland, Sherwin B. Nuland

203 pages • first pub 2003 • 1 edition

nonfiction history science dark informative reflective medium-paced

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"Riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle). Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gai...