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Author: Morton Thompson

📘 The cry and the covenant by Morton Thompson

The fictionalized story of Ignaz Semmelweis, an Austrian-Hungarian physician who discovered the cause of childbed fever and the importance of medical hygiene.

First publish date: 1949

Authors: Morton Thompson

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