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How Ignaz Semmelweis Saved Millions of Mothers, and Changed Medicine Forever
In the 1800s, rampant infections made giving birth in a hospital more dangerous than a battlefield. Yet, a simple practice
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In the 1800s, surgery was a brutal race against death, but few surgeons were as skilled—or as infamous—as Robert Liston.
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In the early 20th century, a simple sore throat could be a death sentence. While doctors knew what bacteria were,
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In 1918, a deadly virus swept across the globe, infecting one-third of the world’s population and killing tens of millions