Ignaz Semmelweis and the Fools’ Tower
Silencing Semmelweis was a sad chapter in the history of medicine, not unlike what happened to some doctors in the U.S. who refused to subject their patients to Covid-19 vaccines;
By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh —— Bio and Archives--December 14, 2025
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Before the germ theory of medicine, there was a Hungarian doctor, Ignaz Semmelweis, who practiced medicine at the Vienna General Hospital in the 1840s.
Semmelweis noticed, after an anatomy professor who was dissecting a cadaver for his students and cut himself with the scalpel, resulting in a severe infection (sepsis) which eventually claimed his life, that many doctors who practiced surgery on cadavers, were going afterwards to treat women in the hospital’s maternity ward.
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