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Who and when made the discovery that doctors in hospitals need to wash and disinfect their hands?

In 1846, the Hungarian physician Ignash Semmelweis drew attention to mortality in the maternity wards of a Vienna hospital: in one of them, deaths from postpartum sepsis were much more frequent than in the other. It was in the department with increased mortality that medical students helped to give birth, who also worked in the infectious diseases department and dissected corpses. Semmelweis suggested that they were left with "cadaverous particles" on their hands, which are responsible for the disease. Then he suggested washing hands thoroughly, treating them and medical instruments with a solution of bleach, which none of the doctors had practiced before, and this measure turned out to be very effective. Although during his lifetime Semmelweis almost did not find supporters of his discovery, was fired from the hospital, and later died, ironically, from the same sepsis, he became the founder of modern hygiene.

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