Google is celebrating handwashing pioneer Ignaz Semmelweis with a doodle demonstrating how best to wash your hands to limit the spread of the new coronavirus.
Today's Google Doodle depicts Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician and"father of infection control," widely recognized as the first person to realize the medical benefits of handwashing.
It also happens that on March 20, 1847, Semmelweis was appointed Chief Resident in Vienna General Hospital's maternity clinic. It was here that he gleaned the importance of handwashing, demonstrating that medics who regularly cleaned their hands could help limit the spread of infection.So, who was Ignaz Semmelweis? Semmelweis a nineteenth-century midwife, born in Buda—today Budapest—in Hungary on July 1, 1818.
At this point, hospital hygiene was lacking. Hand sanitizer was a long way from being invented, let alone used routinely, and even basic handwashing was pretty much non-existent. Medics would move from one patient to the next, taking with them bacteria and other germs and causing infection. The problem only got worse in the nineteenth century as dissection became an increasingly common practice.
His peers were skeptical and it was not until much later, when"germ theory" was more widely accepted, that handwashing was taken seriously. As BMJ Quality & Safety reports, Semmelweis fled Vienna out of humiliation and betrayal when his post was not renewed and ended his life as a patient in a mental hospital, dying at just 47.
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