Ignaz
Semmelweis was a Hungarian obstetrician practicing in the mid-1800's, years before Louis Pasteur came up with his germ theory and Joseph Lister popularized hand washing.
I am reminded of Ignaz
Semmelweis, a Hungarian born physician who studied in Vienna to be an obstetrician and who was alive at the time of Florence Nightingale.
The President of Budapest's
Semmelweis University, Tivadar Tulassay, has resigned over the plagiarism scandal with Hungarian Head of State Pal Schmitt.
Semmelweis, novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine's 1924 fictionalized biography of controversial Vienna obstetrician Ignaz
Semmelweis, is certainly a curiosity: a medical thesis (Celine was a hygienist) that reads alternately like fiction, prose poetry, and modernist screed.
I recall the doctor my Hungarian mother told me about--Ignaz
Semmelweis (1818-1865).
It is the true story of Ignaz
Semmelweis, a doctor at Vienna General Hospital in the mid-1800s.
"The
Semmelweis Reflex" flows from the teaching of Dr.
A Hungarian physician named Ignac
Semmelweis began to suspect that link and insisted that physicians wash their hands in a chemical solution before seeing each patient.
Lantos is an assistant professor in the Department of Respiratory Medicine, School of Medicine,
Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, where he is also head of the bronchology unit.