[at-l] Reg Diagnosing Wilderness Diseases

[jbryankramer at msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

I think you are referring to the Austrian physician: Dr Semmelweiss

Bryan

"Si vis pacem para bellum"

>
> Perhaps the physician responsible for the hand washing craze will
> use one of
> these machines to add accuracy to his next research project.
>
> The physicain in question was a Swiss physician back in the
> 1800's.  I can't
> find/remember his name right now but it was
> a Dr Zimmer?? somethiing- or- other if I remember right.  He was a
> obstetrician that first got the connection of
> lack of cleanliness to the death of the mothers he treated.  He actually
> stood in the halls like the hand washing mafia with other dr's  using
> carbolic acid and insited they use clean  frocks  for each birth and exam
> with hand washing.  The others fought his
> recomendations untill Louis Pasteur's ground breaking research became
> widespread...  This doctor actually went crazy eventualy with the quilt of
> what he thought was murder of all the mothers he had not washed before his
> discovery.
> Sorry for the history lession.
> I'm not in this flame. This post just triggered my reading of this man's
> biography in history.
> Thanks for the heads up on that machine for early diganosis of intestional
> infections.  Sounds like it will save time and lives
> someday and the cost of culturing these nastey germs.
> Rogene
>
>
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