Imagine a hospital where one maternity ward's mothers died at five times the rate of another, and the difference was whether doctors carried the smell of corpses on their hands. In 1847 Vienna, Ignaz ...

People were dying, and only one man knew why. He was brilliant but unpopular, and therefore fated to be rejected even though he had reason and righteousness on his side. Like so many historic geniuses ...

It's one of the best weapons in our arsenal right now against the coronavirus. Other WRAL Top Stories Though washing our hands seems painfully obvious now, it wasn't always that way. The importance of ...

Among the wonders medical science has come up with over the past 150 years, the simple act of hand-washing ranks high. There was a time when it wasn’t so. We have Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis to thank for ...

Related News One of the front-line defenses individuals have against the spread of the coronavirus can feel decidedly low-tech: hand-washing. In fact, it was 19th-century Hungarian physician Ignaz ...

IFLScience needs the contact information you provide to us to contact you about our products and services. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time.

As the deadly new coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread and hand sanitizers disappear at both retail and online stores, Google researchers have dug out a German-Hungarian physician and scientist ...

Related News One of the front-line defenses individuals have against the spread of the coronavirus can feel decidedly low-tech: hand-washing. In fact, it was 19th-century Hungarian physician Ignaz ...