"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished": Ignaz Semmelweis and the Story of Puerperal Fever

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2016 Aug;37(8):881-887. doi: 10.1017/ice.2016.100. Epub 2016 May 16.

Abstract

Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis was born almost 200 years ago, in 1818, to a well-to-do middle class Hungarian family. He started law school in 1837, switched to medicine a year later, and graduated in 1844.

Publication types

  • Biography
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • History, 18th Century
  • History, 19th Century
  • Humans
  • Hungary
  • Puerperal Infection / history*
  • Puerperal Infection / prevention & control*

Personal name as subject

  • Ignaz Semmelweis