Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian-Austrian physician and obstetrician (died 1865)

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…