That said, it was Dr. Semmelweis who ordered his medical students and junior physicians to wash their hands in a chlorinated lime solution until the smell of the putrid bodies they dissected in ...

He’s now considered one of the earliest pioneers of antiseptic procedures -- using a chlorinated lime solution to wash his hands when treating puerperal fever or as it was also called "childbed ...

As coronavirus continues to impact millions of people around the globe, Google is highlighting the importance of hand washing with a Doodle dedicated to Dr Ignaz Semmelweis, known as the “father ...

However, his colleagues didn't share his belief that hand-washing with a chlorinated lime solution would be better for patient outcomes and so they publicly dismissed his findings and ridiculed him.

Ignaz Semmelweis discovered the wonders of handwashing during an experiment at a Vienna hospital for poor pregnant women, but his research wasn't accepted until years after his death.

A few days later, they were taken under police guard to watch Karsayev's coffin -- filled with chlorinated lime and sealed in plastic -- being lowered into one of dozens of fresh graves at the ...

The Hungarian obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis, born 200 years ago this month, saved the lives of hundreds, possibly thousands, of new mothers with his forward-looking ideas about hospital hygiene.