Ignaz Philipp point (Hungarian Flp Semmelweisz, * 1. July 1818 in furnace with Buda, today Budapest; "† 13 August 1865 in with Vienna) was a Hungarian-Austrian Arzt.Er learned at the Universities of plague and Vienna medicine and received to 1844 its doctor degree at the University of Vienna.

Meaning

Roll-point, late rescuer of the mothers mentioned, Assistenzarzt was in the hospital for birth assistance in Vienna. It was well-known that in the department, in which physicians and medical students worked, who were substantially higher number of deaths rate by child bed fever than in the second department, in which midwife pupils were trained. Roll-point wanted the reason for it to find and examined the mothers still more thoroughly. But straight thereby continued to rise the deaths in its department still, so that becoming mothers finally resisted, into its department to be shifted. After its diary died in the entire hospital 36 of 208 mothers at child bed fever. It was therefore just as dangerous to bring a child on the world as at to get sick.

Only as the forensic pathologists Jakob Kolletschka (1803 - 1847), gotten used to with it, during a corpse section of a student with the Skalpell and few days later at a blood poisoning deceased, an illness with similar process as that of the child bed fever, believed roll-points the cause of the illness was hurt to designate to be able:

The medical students accomplished daily clinical sections at corpses of the female patients, who had deceased before at child bed fever. With unwashed and not disinfected hands they examined occasionally women during relieving and did not transfer thereby traces of infectious Material.Die an actual cause of the infections - the transmission of normally bacteria in great quantities existing on the hands - were at that time yet admit (see corpse poison). The midwife pupils at the second department however came not with Leichenin contact and accomplished also no vaginalen investigations.

Roll-point instructed its students to disinfect itself after corpse sections the hands with chlorinated lime an effective measure, which lowered the number of deaths rate from 12,3 % to 2-3 %. When nevertheless again 12 got sick at one blow with the child bed fever, when its cause the infected, jauchige Uteruskarzinom of a Mitpatientin was assumed, recognized it that the infection can proceed not only with corpses but also from living persons. Thus it intensified the regulations in such a way that the hands before each investigation had to be disinfected. It succeeded to it to lower 1848 the number of deaths rate on 1,3 % a value, which was to the second hospital department with midwives even slightly under that. This discovery of Roll-point showed a partial responsibility of the physicians at the death of many mothers, which caused some physicians to it suicide to commit, since they could not live no more with this debt.

Despite this success its work long time was not recognized. Its students considered cleanliness simple unnecessary and many physicians wanted yet to admit that they caused that illness, which they wanted to heal. Discredited by a plot of its boss, who felt ignored, roll-point and had 1849 the hospital to leave.

Starting from 1855 was roll-points professor for birth assistance at the university in plague (today the roll pointing university designated after it). Its results and experiences seized he in the book the etiology, which term and the prophylaxis of the child bed fever together, which appeared 1861. But only few physicians stood on his side, since the hygiene was regarded as waste of time and incompatibly with the then valid theories about disease causes.

Roll-point got sick apparent psychologically and in July 1865 from 3 physician colleagues into the lunatic asylum with Vienna without diagnosis one in-supplied. Some sources report, Semmelweis' admission into the lunatic asylum happened due to a plot. it had threatened 1862 in an open letter to the medical profession, the birth-helping physicians publicly as a murderer anzuprangern, since they did not use its hygiene regulations yet. (Source: "“The time"” No. 33, 1995)

On 13 August 1865, 2 weeks after its briefing, he died at a blood poisoning by a small injury, which he had tightened himself with a fight with the institute personnel. There are also different messages according to which it on the yard of the institute by male nurses was killed, which is more convincing than death at a blood poisoning in a private mental hospital in that it nevertheless daily Visiten gives. Main building of the institute is today (since 1991) the district court On the former area of the institute is the new building of a senior home.

After its death by the Scottish surgeon Joseph Lister (1827-1912) was introduced in the year 1867 demonstrated spraying of the operation field with disinfecting Karbol into the surgery and thus a steep waste of the mortality in the operating room was reached. In the course of this progress a physician generation became generally accepted also the hygiene in the child bed and the scientific world later became more aware of the meaning of Ignaz Semmelweis' realizations.

Literature

• Biographies over roll-point are from L.F. Destouches (tr. 1937) and J. Rich (1961) appeared.
• I. Roll-point: Two open letters at Hofrath Dr. von Siebold and Hofrath Dr. Scanzoni, (plague 1861)
• I. Roll-point: The etiology, the term and the prophylaxis of the child bed fever together, the 1861
• I. Roll-point: Open letter to all professors of the birth assistance from Ignaz roll-point, 1862, ungar. University University of, furnace

Films

• Roll-point - rescuers of the mothers DEFA 1950 by the director George C. to clear ones
• To "“Ignaz roll-point - physician of the women"”, 1987 direction: Michael Verhoeven

See also

History of the medicine -- List of the important medical profession and physicians - Antisepsis

Related links

• Roll-point and Virchow
• English biography with The Engines OF Our Ingenuity

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