Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (born 1818)

Ignaz Semmelweis

Early pioneer of antiseptic procedures

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician and scientist of German descent who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures and was described as the "saviour of mothers". Postpartum infection, also known as puerperal fever or childbed fever, consists of any bacterial…