Did Doctors Downplay Postpartum Infections?

The findings of physicians Oliver Wendell Holmes and Ignaz Philip Semmelweiss emphasized the need for cleanliness to decrease postpartum infections. The pair were faced with questioning and rejection from many esteemed medical practitioners. But were they right? Despite the studies done by Oliver Holmes and Ignaz Semmelweiss, the general disbelief of physicians to the significance […]

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