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Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis demonstrated that the use of disinfectants could reduce the occurrence of puerperal fever in patients in nineteenth century Austria.
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Semmelweis was one of the most prominent medical figures of his time.

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Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian obstetrician who disproved the belief that post-operations deaths were caused by ‘poison air’ in a hospital ward.


Ignaz semmelweis contribution to medicine
Ignác Semmelweis married Mária Weidenhofer (), who came from a well-to-do German-speaking family from Pest, on 1 June At that time, Ignác Semmelweis had already been an appointed professor at the university of Pest, and in he was also invited to teach at the University of Zurich.