Ignaz Semmelweis
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Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian medical doctor and scientist of German descent who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures, known as the "saviour of mothers". Postpartum infection, also
Semmelweis in 1860
Theresia Müller and Joseph Semmelweis, the parents of Ignaz Semmelweis
Child portrait of Semmelweis, 1830
Streptococcus pyogenes (red-stained spheres) is responsible for most cases of severe puerperal fever. It is commonly found in the throat and nasopharynx of otherwise healthy carriers.
Louis Pasteur
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Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was name
Ignaz Semmelweis
…wound on his right hand that may have been caused by the beating. Semmelweis's findings only gained widespread acceptance years after his death, when Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory of disease, giving Semmelweis's observations a scientific explanation, and Joseph Lister, acting on Pasteur's research…
Photograph by Nadar, 1895
The house in which Pasteur was born, Dole
Louis Pasteur, French biologist and chemist, 1878, by A Gerschel
Pasteur experimenting in his laboratory