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017: Catching the Mother Killer - Ignaz Semmelweis

017: Catching the Mother Killer - Ignaz Semmelweis

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Vienna of 1840 faces a deadly mystery. Pregnant women are entering its Clinic Number 1 and never leaving, killed in high numbers by deathbed fever. When a prickly doctor doggedly uncovers the reason, he is punished for his theory. And young mothers keep dying. The cautionary tale of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis.

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