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The Doctors' Plague
The Doctors' Plague
Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, Ignác Semmelweis advised that  doctors must wash their hands before examining patients, especially if they are going to or have just aided in the delivery of a baby . Otherwise, they would pass on to patients childbed fever. The Herr Profeszors were aghast such a silly idea, that they were causing ch...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780965156004
ISBN-10: 0965156001
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 191
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Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Book Type: Paperback
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