semmelweis

Updated: August 5, 2026

It was Oliver Wendell Holmes a graduate in medicine and a professor in the Harvard Medical School, though we are accustomed to think of him only as a delightful writer who first declared that puerperal fever was the product of infection from without the body, and Semmelweis demonstrated the truth of the proposition.

John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 : The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents