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Hungarian Ignaz Philip had introduced hand wash.Ignaz Philip Semmelweis or Ignaz Philip Semlevis was a Hungarian physician. He is known as the promoter of the hand wash system. He is regarded as the follower of the antiseptic procedure in medical surgery.
Ignaz was born on July 01,1885. He is Hungarian by birth.
In 1846, he was the head of the maternity department at a hospital in Vienna, Austria. In 1850, the birth rate in Europe was not very good.
In the children’s care clinics there were occasional fever and mother and baby deaths. This death was never going to stop. At that time, Philip did research and found that children were suffering from the germs left by doctors.
The germs are being infected elsewhere by the doctors. He instructed doctors to wash their hands and surgical instruments with chlorine and then deliver the baby. This reduced the mortality rate of the patients dramatically. But other doctors began to oppose Ignaz. They thought that doctors who save lives are spreading disease and killing patients – this could not happen at all.
Contrary to the notion of Ignaz, intense resistance began to come. The doctors sat down and said, “No doctor will wash his hands.” Everyone started laughing at him without hearing his suggestion to wash his hands. His job also goes away.
At the head of just one era of this revolutionary invention, Ignaz became utterly disappointed. Often drunk, he started scolding doctors as ‘a gang of butchers, animals, illiterate mobs’. He was eventually taken to a mental hospital.
He died in that hospital. Sadly, though, his illness and death resulted from a wound infection in his right arm. This was probably the result of his operation before he became ill. He died because of which he struggled for a lifetime.
Decades later, his ideas were recognized for his contribution to ‘germ theory’. Joseph Lister, the father of modern antiseptic, said: “I admire his achievement and it filled me with joy; in the end he was honored.”
News Room, April 05,2020
