Eponyms of Medicine: Petri Dish
The Petri Dish is one of the most important devices in a laboratory of microbiology. It is efficient and, at the same time, simple. It can be described as a…
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16/05/2016
Semmelweis: the revolution and the reaction
SemmelweisIt was said in the previous post that there were two kinds of services in the maternity ward of the Vienna General Hospital. At the First Clinic, children were delivered…
05/05/2016
The revolution of Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865) In the mid-nineteenth century, a maternity ward of the Vienna General Hospital used to offer free care to poor people.…
21/03/2016