Tag: Abdullah Mubarik
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Ignaz Semmelweis: The original hand hygiene pioneer
Matthew HillAbdullah MubarikJulius BonelloPeoria, Illinois, United States Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818–1865) was born on July 1, 1818, in Budapest, Hungary. He was the son of a wealthy grocer and the fifth of ten children. While little is known of his childhood, he would eventually go on to study law at the University of Vienna in…
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Helen Taussig
Matthew HillAbdullah MubarikJulius BonelloPeoria, Illinois, United States Standing outside of the operating room, Helen Taussig was beside herself. Fifteen-month-old Eileen Saxon, a “blue baby” born with a congenital heart malformation that deprived the body of oxygenated blood, was undergoing a procedure that Taussig had conceived and recommended to the surgeon. Despite the surgeon’s success with…