Ignaz Semmelweis: The Hungarian Doctor beaten to death for promoting Handwashing

Eklenipizableki Mozoz is trying to live a toxic life without a big man. I'm going to get a gas station. Then I'll take you to the side. Hangini Mertso was born in 1846-1947. Semiyevay's mortality rate among pregnant women in the hospital where Dr. Ignaz Semiyevay I worked in Vienna, Austria, was very high. He was head of the maternity ward at the Alemein Krankenhaus, the largest hospital in Vienna, Austria. An infection of the female reproductive organs following childbirth, the pupal fever also known as childbirth fever, was a common cause of death and was almost considered incurable by the medical practitioners at the time. In Semiyevay's hospital, one in six women died after childbirth from the fever. The symptoms were no different. After giving birth, the new mother would develop chills and then fever after a few hours. Subsequently, her abdomen would become swollen and excruciatingly painful. Within a few days, she would be dead, leaving a motherless child to the world. This incident was so common in the hospitals in Vienna that Semiyevay's decided to make The Commission has also made some findings on the cause of the high mortality rates. In his research, the doctor discovered that pregnant women in a medical student-run clinic The number of deaths from the disease was much higher in the Netherlands than in the United States. run by midwives. Further in his research, Semiyevay's also discovered that the students carried something from the morgue. After conducting autopsies on the dead bodies of the pregnant women they later examined, Some of the autopsies were also performed on the women. The doctors and their medical students as well, knew that when they opened the bodies, They would be met with a strong stench that made the new student vomit immediately. Afterwards, they would observe the swollen and inflamed ovaries, uterus, fallopian tubes, As well as pools of pulse throughout the abdominal cavity. In plain words, the women's insides had been ravaged. Semiyevay then ordered and forced all the doctors and students under him to wash wash their hands with the chlorinated lime solution before entering the maternity ward. True to his words, the mortality rate dropped dramatically from 18% to 1%. He did not know the reason for the success because the idea that germs existed and caused infections was non-existent at the time. In fact, the germ theory would remain in obscurity for 18 years until Louis Pasteur, a French Biologist, microbiologist and chemist, popularized it with his pasteurization method in 1865. However, despite Semiyevay's compelling practical evidence, the doctors of the medical The Vienna Community condemned and ignored his theory. They stubbornly refused to entertain the idea, arguing that it might be harming their patients. As a result, the Hungarian lost the respect of his colleagues and superiors alike, and The whole scenario ruined his career, which never recovered. Ignaz Semiyevay struggled for years to promote his groundbreaking contribution to the field The Commission has already made a number of recommendations to the Council on the implementation of the directive. mentally disturbed people in 1865, where he was later beaten and died 14 days later. He was 47. Although many monuments and landmarks, even a university is named after Semiyevay for his work on the theory of germs, he never lived to see his life's work come to fruition. We always have more stories to tell, so if you liked this video, don't forget to give Thumbs up and share it with your friends. You can also check out our next video to know more about Werner Forssmann, the Nobel Prize A winner who touched his own heart.