The Doctor Who Discovered Clean Hands and Was Destroyed for It: Ignaz Semmelweis
In the 1840s, mothers in a Vienna maternity ward begged to give birth in the street rather than be admitted to the clinic run by doctors. A young Hungarian physician, Ignaz Semmelweis, found out why – a discovery so simple and so unwelcome that it cost him his career, his sanity, and finally his life.