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Ignaz Semmelweis discovered how to prevent childbirth fever, rather than its specific cause. Although Pasteur's germ theory of disease had not yet been developed, Semmelweis noticed that there was higher mortality from childbirth at the maternity clinic than among births in the street. He concluded that medical students who were conducting autopsies were carrying some unknown cause of disease from the cadavers to the mothers who gave birth. When he insisted that all who attended the childbirths first wash their hands in chlorinated lime, the incidence of childbirth fever was reduced dramatically.
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