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THE SIMMELWEIS EFFECT AND THE NST
In the middle 1800s, a doctor named Ignaz Simmelweis noticed that maternity patients at one Vienna Clinic were dying at huge rate while the ones at a second clinic were not. The difference? The first clinic included an autopsy suite where professors and students were going from that to the maternity ward without washing…
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