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This 5 page paper discusses the novel by Morton Thompson called, The Cry and the Covenant which chronicles the innovations and lifetime of Dr. Semmelweiss, a pioneer in early etiological studies of infections. Examples are quoted and cited from the text to illustrate the difficulties Semmelweiss faced at the hands of the medical community due to prejudice and politics. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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such individual would be Ignatz Semmelweis, who was one of the first men to revolutionize prophylaxis and went on to bring many innovations to the surgeries of his day and
age. Sadly, like many pioneers in their field, Semmelweiss ideas were not embraced by his colleagues nor appreciated in his time. Medicine was in its infancy when Semmelweiss practiced.
It was through his simple suggestions and logical conclusions that millions of lives would be saved because he deemed it necessary to sanitize and sterilize hospital instruments, rooms and doctors
hands and clothing. Not only did his ideas go against the conventional practice of the day and age, but it can be thought that his ethnicity also
provided another cause for doctors to dislike, distrust and discount what he had to say about the medical field. Semmelweis was not born in Vienna, but rather immigrated to there
from Hungary. Gregarious at best, his ability to accept the conventionalities of civility was stilted and perhaps without intending to do so he managed to alienate most of the medical
community. In addition, since he was part of the teaching staff at the university, his innovations and experimentations were severely unwelcome. A good example of this was when he
began to question the administration of the hospital why it was that women who gave birth in the street were healthier than those women who came to the hospital to
give birth. This was not what they wanted to hear, of course. "Henceforth, Dr. Semmelweis, you will regard puerperal fever as an ailment traceable to milk. You will regard
it as an aliment for which no human mind has ever found a remedy. No remedy ever will be found. You will accustom yourself to the unhappy incidence and the
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