The first, historical strand is based on the real-life Hungarian-born Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, a doctor working in 19th-century Vienna, who realised that the spread of child-bed or puerperal fever could be prevented if doctors would wash their hands between patients.
Ignaz Moscheles | Ignaz von Döllinger | Semmelweis University | Ignaz Semmelweis | Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg | Ignaz Friedman | Joseph Ignaz Philipp von Hessen-Darmstadt | Ignaz von Sonnleithner | Ignaz von Olfers | Ignaz Vitzthumb | Ignaz Kuranda | Ignaz Bendl |
Independent studies by Ignaz Semmelweis in 1847 in Vienna and Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1843 in Boston established a link between the hands of health care workers and the spread of hospital-acquired disease.