For Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician-scientist ... He had been duped into being committed to an insane asylum. Within a few days, he would be dead, possibly from injuries sustained during ...

Ignaz Semmelweis was the first doctor to discover ... He died in a public insane asylum five years later, at the age of 47. Semmelweis must take some of the blame for his failure to win over ...

This is the story of doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, who in the 19th Century fought to convince his fellow doctors that washing their hands could save patients’ lives. But despite the success of his ...