Sinclair, Sir William J.: Semmelweis. His Life and his Doctrine (Manchester, 1909)

Table of contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I.

PAGE

Introduction 1

II.

Parentage and Nationality ------ 7

School Education - -- -- -- 8

University Education ------ 9

III.

Life in Vienna -------- 13

The General Hospital—Retrospective - - - 13

Semmelweis as Assistant - - - - - - 14

Doctrines of Etiology before Semmelweis - - 17

Friends of Semmelweis ------ 25

New Etiology - - - - - - - -28

Elimination of Factors ------ 29

Removal from Assistantship - - - - - 46

Second Term as Assistant: The Discovery - - 48

Introduction of Antisepsis - - - - - 50

Extension of Etiology ------ 52

Explanation of Phenomena - - - - - 54

Evidence from Clinical Work - - - - - 56

IV.

Spread of the Doctrine During the Vienna Period - 61

Hebra’s First Article ------ 64

The Revolution

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pread of the Doctrine by Correspondence - - 73

Simpson, of Edinburgh - - - - - 73

Routh, of London ------ 75

Michaelis, of Kiel - - - - - - 76

Tilanus, of Amsterdam.....................................................77