Was It in the Air? The Killers Too Small to See

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Ignaz SemmelweisHistorical profile​·​#5772​·​May 1847​·​AI-assisted
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Childbed fever comes from decaying matter, from corpses or from the living, like a cancer or a festering wound, carried to the mothers on hands and instruments, and now and then through a ward’s air. Wash hands in chlorinated lime between every examination, and the fever goes.

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