Ignaz Semmelweis - July 1 1818 to August 13 1865. Known for Introducing hand disinfection standards, in obstetrical clinics, from 1847
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Described as the "savior of mothers", Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics.
Puerperal fever was common in mid-19th-century hospitals and often fatal, with mortality at 10%–35%. Semmelweis postulated the theory of washing with chlorinated lime solutions in 1847 while working in Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had three times the mortality of midwives' wards. He published a book of his findings in Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever.
Despite various publications of results where hand-washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community.
Some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and Semmelweis could offer no acceptable scientific explanation for his findings.
In 1865 his colleagues dragged him out of the medical profession, into an insane asylum, where he ironically died of septicemia, at age 47. This Doctor simply asked other Doctors to wash their hands.
Semmelweis's practice earned widespread acceptance only years after his death, when Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory.
Today we have the same kind of arrogant commitment to hanging on to old practices.
Today we have a billion dollar MS drug industry that is not interested in seeing a drug-free treatment for MS succeed.
If they did this to Ignaz over hand washing… what would they do to undermine this precious CCSVI theory, to protect their billion dollar drug business?
What would they do to undermine the truth?
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Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis