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Semmelweis Review: Unraveling a Scientific Revolution
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In the dimly illuminated medical realm of 19th-century Vienna, a pioneering film arises to chronicle the incredible story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor who dared to defy medical convention. Directed by Lajos Koltai, “Semmelweis” depicts a watershed moment in medical history that would ultimately save many lives.

Set in 1847, the film transports viewers to a bleak medical scene in which maternity wards were feared as death factories. Miklós H. Vecsei presents Semmelweis as a passionate and driven young doctor working at Vienna General Hospital, where an unexplained tragedy occurred. Puerperal fever, an unknown murderer of new moms, terrified pregnant women so much that they would prefer to give birth on the street than visit a hospital.

A pregnant woman screaming on the street, afraid of the hospital’s lethal reputation, is the opening scene of the film that best illustrates this horror drama. Semmelweis started a research that would become revolutionary.
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  • 11/20/2024
  • by Shahrbanoo Golmohamadi
  • Gazettely

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