Who was ignaz semmelweis? - Correct Answers -A doctor in the mind 1850's.
At that time what happened to many women in hospital? - Correct Answers -They died
from childbed fever a few days after giving birth, nobody knew what caused it.
What did semmelweis notice about his medical students? - Correct Answers -That they
went straight from dissecting a dead body to delivering a baby without washing their
hands. He wondered if they were carrying to the cause of disease from the corpses to
the patients.
What happened to another doctor that made semmelweis realise the fever was caused
by something passed on? - Correct Answers -Another doctor cut himself while working
on a body and died from symptoms which were identical to childbed fever.
What did semmelweis insist to his medical students? - Correct Answers -That they'd
wash their hands before delivering babys, immediately fewer mothers died from the
fever.
How did semmelweis try and get his ideas excepted? - Correct Answers -Talked to
other doctors, he thought evidence would prove to them that childbed fever was spread
by doctors, but his ideas were mocked.
What did many doctors think and why? - Correct Answers -Many doctors thought it was
a punishment to women , no one had ever seen bacteria or viruses so it was hard to
think it was caused by something they couldnt see.
What did doctors not like the idea of? - Correct Answers -That they might have been
spreading the disease, they were told their actions were killing instead of curing.
In hospitals day what's an example of a bacteria that is causing lots of problems and
why? - Correct Answers -MRSA, its resistant to antibiotics which causes lots of
problems.
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