NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
MICROBIOLOGY
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Question
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Which doctor from the 1840’s told us that hand washing can stop the spread of diseases?
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Hippocrates
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Snow
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Pasteur
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Semmelweis
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Ignaz Semmelweis, the doctor who discovered the disease-fighting power of hand-washing in 1847.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor working in Vienna General Hospital, is known as the father of hand hygiene.
Detailed explanation-3: -This brilliant insight led Semmelweis to institute in the two maternity clinics, during the summer of 1847, the practice that before examining a patient or attending a birth one had to wash one’s hands with chlorinated lime, and especially if there had been prior contact with a corpse.
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