Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a brilliant Hungarian doctor and physician who is now recognized and celebrated as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures and modern hygiene practices in #medicine. Lovingly described as the "saviour of mothers" for his groundbreaking work, Dr. Semmelweis made a revolutionary discovery that would eventually save countless lives 💙 He found that the incidence of deadly puerperal, or childbed fever, could be drastically and dramatically cut by as much as 90% if doct

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