May 2009
8 posts
Medicine bites man: Take a number please...
well anyway as I was saying… last Saturday night (that would be July 12th, 2009), I happened to read the wiki biographical entry about a great, but little known man of science Ignaz Semmelweis. Semmelwies discovered that having his clinic staff wash their hands with a chlorinated lime solution after performing autopsies dramatically reduced the mortality rate in the Vienna General Hospital...
