In the mid-19th century, a Hungarian physician named Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis ... his work until 1861. Semmelweis grew more unstable and was finally committed to an insane asylum in July 1865.

The Semmelweis reflex is ... critical for fostering innovation in mental health care and helping people who do not respond to conventional treatments. Ignaz Semmelweis Source: Mór Than/Wikimedia ...

Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis was intrigued ... linking handwashing to better medical care. Semmelweis worked in the Vienna General Hospital in Austria, which had two separate maternity ...

Today neurosurgeon Dr Henry Marsh chooses “the saviour of mothers” Dr Ignaz Semmelweis The Hungarian ... him restrained and sectioned in a mental asylum where he subsequently died from injuries.

It is called Dr Semmelweis after Ignaz Semmelweis ... He left Vienna and led an increasingly troubled life, dying in a mental asylum at the age of 47. Rylance brings his story to life on stage ...

Ignaz Semmelweis observed that many young medical students at his hospital in Vienna went directly from an autopsy, still covered in contaminated dead flesh, to attend pregnant women. Could this ...

As presented here, Ignaz Semmelweis is a historical figure of tragic proportions ... discovery being acclaimed and implemented and Semmelweis ended his life in a mental asylum dying – ironically ...

Ignaz Semmelweis was an obstetrician ... throwing charges of murder around the hospital like confetti. There’s something genuinely tragic here, in that the real Semmelweis’s personality and, arguably, ...

Ignaz Semmelweis, the doctor at the heart of this stylish and highly stylised period piece, was a complicated, contradictory figure. By turns brilliant, driven, impatient and prone to erratic ...