How a Hungarian Physician Saved Women from Childbed Fever and Became the ‘Savior of Mothers’

How a Hungarian Physician Saved Women from Childbed Fever and Became the ‘Savior of Mothers’Constant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 763, Segment 2

Nov 27, 2020 • 21m

Guest: Anthony Valerio, editor, teacher, and author of “Semmelweis” Washing your hands isn’t just the best way to prevent COVID-19 in 2020—it was also the rallying cry of Ignaz Semmelweis, a young Hungarian doctor trying to end the scourge of childbed fever and lower maternal mortality rates in the 1840s, well before germ theory entered scientific thought.

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