Death House in Vienna

Answer T or F for true or false, or Select AD for

the phrase that best completes the sentence.

___ Semmelweiss decided to study medicine because he

would {A. earn more money; B. save lives}.

___ Director Johann Klein urged Semmelweiss to save

{A. doctors; B. midwives}.

___ The wards with the lowest death rates were those
run by {A. doctors; B. midwives}.

___ A contagious disease is one that a person {A. inherits from his/her parents; B. acquires by contact.}.

___ Jacob Kolletschka, Semelweiss friend, died of a

disease he got from a corpse.

___ The midwives prided themselves upon their bloodstained coats.

___ The head midwife insisted the midwives have clean

hands.

Death House in Vienna

Answer T or F for true or false, or Select AD for
the phrase that best completes the sentence.

___ When the doctors began washing their hands, the

number of deaths {A. increased; B. decreased}.

___ Deaths began going up again because the doctors

{A. did more autopsies; B. ignored Semmelweiss rules}.

___ Philipp Semmelweiss died without learning about
the germ theory of disease.

What do you think about these discoveries and the way

it impacted the medical field, specifically midwifery?

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Ignaz Philipp
Semmelweiss
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Ignaz
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Jakob
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Midwives
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Wash &
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Childbed Fever
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Germ Theory
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