The struggle of a doctor to prove his theory about handwashing preventing puerperal fever against medical establishment resistance
Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the hospital.
Lajos Koltai
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