The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, And The Strange Story Of Ignác Semmelweis by Sherwin B. Nuland, Sherwin B. Nuland
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, And The Strange Story Of Ignác Semmelweis

Sherwin B. Nuland, Sherwin B. Nuland

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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, And The Strange Story Of Ignác Semmelweis

Sherwin B. Nuland, Sherwin B. Nuland

192 pages hardcover 2003

8 editions

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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An analysis of nineteenth-century Viennese doctor Ignac Semmelweis's reforms of the medical establishment describes his discovery of the correlation between hand washing and reduced infection, recounting how his early work contributed to the subse...

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