HLSC 4P50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vienna General Hospital, Ignaz Semmelweis, Germ Theory Of Disease
15 Sep 2018
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Questions of who, how often, where and when are all missing. # of people who got diarrhea and ate pizza & ice cream - 39. Total number of people who ate pizza & ice cream 52. # of people who got diarrhea and did not eat ice cream 23 (14 + 9) Total number of people who did not eat ice cream 70. 2 clinics: one staffed by physicians and one staffed by midwives. Physicians would start their day with autopsies, while midwives did not. Higher rates of maternal death in the first clinic. Hypothesized that disease-carrying particles are being transmitted from the dead women being autopsied to the live expectant women causing the high number of cases of childbed fever in clinic 1. His findings were not accepted in his lifetime. His ideas became accepted when louis pasteur confirmed the germ theory. Physicians did not want to be responsible for these deaths and.
