Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers
1861
Semmelweis's 1861 book on childbed fever in Vienna's maternity hospital. He compares the clinic run by doctors and students, who came from dissecting corpses, with the clinic run by midwives. He reports that chlorine handwashing cut deaths in the doctors' clinic, and blames decomposing corpse matter carried on the hands.