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Ignaz Semmelweis
Hand Hygiene Pioneer
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A Hungarian physician who in 1847 showed that mandatory handwashing with a chlorinated lime solution by doctors moving between autopsies and childbirth wards sharply cut deaths from puerperal fever, decades before germ theory was established. His findings were rejected by much of the medical establishment of his time, a rejection now studied as a case of resisted innovation.
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Notable ForEstablishing handwashing as disease prevention before germ theory was confirmed 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
1. Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.Concepts and Practices Developed: Hand Hygiene, Ignaz SemmelweisQuote, Concepts and Practices Developed: Hand Hygiene, Ignaz Semmelweis
Under these procedures, the mortality rates in the first division dropped from 18.27 to 1.27 percent.
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