Download or read book The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) written by Sherwin B. Nuland and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-11-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes how doctor Ignac Semmelweis's reforms of the medical field led to his discovery of the correlation between hand washing and reduced infection, recounting how his work contributed to the establishment of germ theory.