The Cry and the Covenant
A Historical, Fiction book. ****1/2In 1847 a sharp Hungarian doctor by the name of...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 469 pages
- ISBN: 9780899667584 / 899667589
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I read it a long time ago. It is very interesting but not a thriller or anything. It somewhat kept my interest.It is about a doctor and how he tries to solve the mystery of childbed fever in the hospital. None of the doctors believe that the answer could be so easy as just washing your hands. He spends the rest of his life trying to... First and foremost, I learned about Ignaz Semmelweiss, about his drive, his compassion, and his desire to make a wrong right. But I also learned how medicine and health care have changed since his days as a medical student. This was a great story, an important story, a story not to be missed by anyone staying or working in a hospital.... ****1/2In 1847 a sharp Hungarian doctor by the name of Ignaz Semmelweis made a brilliant discovery. He found if doctors just washed their hands in chlorine solution, the death rate for Puerperal fever (which is caused by sepsis) could be brought down to less the 1%. Considering that the rate before this was a whopping 35%, this was...
