Kedves Silan,

Tudomanytortenetbol is bukta, raadasul eleg ciki, hogy pont a sajat szakteruleted.

Semmelweis tudta, hogy mi okozza a gyermekagyi lazat, es azt megfelelo modon be is bizonyitotta.

Grolier enciklopedia, Bakterium:

Bacteria in Disease

In Vienna in the mid-1840s, Ignaz Philip SEMMELWEIS, a Hungarian obstetrician, tried to convince his disbelieving colleagues that the disease that swept through maternity wards and killed hundreds of women each year could be prevented. Childbed fever (puerperal sepsis) was caused by a strain of Streptococcus spread by medical students going from the dissecting room to the patients without first washing. Semmelweiss had the students on his wards wash their hands in disinfectant before each delivery, and this precaution greatly reduced the amount of infection. In spite of the remarkable drop in the number of deaths, he was discredited by his colleagues. Ironically, he died of an infection from a cut received during an AUTOPSY.

The role of bacteria in a disease was first proved (1876) by the German bacteriologist Robert KOCH for ANTHRAX, and was confirmed by Louis PASTEUR.

Gabor