Learn more about Ignaz Semmelweis the doctor who is credited with discovering that micro-organisms can cause disease. Understand about how he was an early promoter of using antiseptic procedures in the hospital through an article and video. [7:13]

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microorganisms

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antiseptic procedures, micro-organisms, ignaz semmelweis, pathogen

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