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The Doctors' Plague

The Doctors' Plague
Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 039332625X

"Riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle). Download The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. /strong>Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of IgnAc Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. IgnAc Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately-childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared-they brough Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. The Doctors' Plague medical books pdf for free. /strong>Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of IgnAc Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. IgnAc Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea While his simple reforms worked immediately-childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared-they brough



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