The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) 0393052990, 9780393052992

An analysis of nineteenth-century Viennese doctor Ignac Semmelweis's reforms of the medical establishment describes

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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)
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