[log in to unmask],Inet wrote on 25.10.98 at 03:35
to [log in to unmask],Inet about "HANDS OFF!":
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>Here is a very interesting news item from Medscape. I wonder what the
>statistics are like in all the allied healing disciplines? It makes
you
>wonder if some professionals may have forgotten the overture to the
>Hippocratic Oath - "Above all, do not harm".
>
> Great Moments in Medicine - The Man Who Cleaned Up Obstetrics
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> In 1846, a physician suggested obstetricians wash their hands
> before delivering babies, stopping an epidemic. But over 150
> years later, some studies indicate that less than 60 percent
> of doctors scrub their hands before handling patients.
> [Hippocrates 12(7):64, 1998]
>
>Dr Mel C Siff
>Littleton, Colorado, USA
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It was Ignaz Semmelweis in Vienna who suggested that physicians should
wash
their hands after working in the dead body room and bringing child bed
feaver
to many mothers. He was put to a psychiatric ward for that and other
suggestions about hygienics, where he died. Thousands of mothers and
babies
survived and a women's clinic was named after him when it finally was
clear
that he had been right.
Greetings from Vienna,
Hedi Binder
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