h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Exactly what my research has indicated.
The maternity case dealt with by the young men had a forty percent higher mortality rate than the cases in the next ward over which were being taken care of by midwife students, who, needless to say, were not spending any time messing with the cadavers of women who had just died of peuperal fever. A vicious cycle.
Legend has it that Ignaz first became interested when a fellow student of his cut himself with a dirty scalpel and died of pueperal fever. Legend also has it that Ignaz died in poverty in an insane asylum from a septic cut that contracted pueperal fever....
Nevermind that. The Hungarians have made several romantic fantasies about Semmelweis over the years in film, pseudo-bio and novel.
There are at least a half dozen statues of him and lord knows how many clinics, fellowships and university chairs....
I ran across him in an encyclopedia I was working through the volumes of .
What tangent?

See how we strayed off the initial subject matter of this thread

Now where were we left standing?

I don't know about you, but I'm sitting.

JWF made some comments about youth perceptions about authors and authors perceptions of their readers in the AGGH thread (I think), that I've threatened to incorporate into an expanded version of 'Old Authors for Young Readers'.