For Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician-scientist in the mid-19th century, failure to learn that being right is attended by certain responsibilities had a very high cost. Ironically it would ...

Ignaz Semmelweis was the first doctor to discover the importance for medical professionals of hand washing. In the 19th century, it was common for women to die from an illness contracted during ...

Ignaz Semmelweis Source: Mór Than/Wikimedia Commons The Origins of the Semmelweis Reflex The term "Semmelweis reflex" is derived from the story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a 19th-century Hungarian ...

In 1847, the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis made a breakthough discovery: he discovers handwashing. Contaminated hands was a major cause of childbed fever and by enforcing handwashing at his ...