The death of a friend solved a centuries-old, oft-fatal mystery
My doctrine is produced in order to banish the terror from lying-in hospitals, to preserve the wife to the husband, and the mother to the child... — Ignaz Semmelweis, 1861
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I would like to thank Dr John Doherty of Vienna for assistance in preparing this article.