semmelweis

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  June 22, 2026

  The Cure Was the Disease

  In 1847 Vienna, the doctors’ maternity ward killed far more mothers than the midwives’. Ignaz Semmelweis found the cause, and it was the one thing the profession could not afford to believe: their own hands.

  • semmelweis
  • medicine
  • history of science
  • assumptions
  • philosophy
  • epistemics
  • decision making