The Death of Medicine

This is the incredible story of the little-known surgeon known as "The Savior of Mothers", and appropriately so. The doctor who miraculously reduced the death rates from as high as 30% to nearly zero in every birth clinic he supervised has a lot to teach any person who wants to safeguard his or her health and that of his or her family. The discoveries of Doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, predating Lister and Pasteur, and the practices that they spawned, are still saving countless lives every day. Part of the rationale for writing this book was to remind every person who reads it how modern medicine began, how it once died, and how history could repeat itself. This is an inspiring story, an informative story, and ultimately a tragic story from cover to cover. But by describing how one dedicated surgeon solved the greatest medical mystery of all time, each reader (with no need of medical knowledge) will easily understand the basis of the 21st century approach toward human health and disease.