As coronavirus continues to impact millions of people around the globe, Google is highlighting the importance of hand washing with a Doodlededicated to Dr Ignaz Semmelweis, known as the “father of infection control”.
Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, is widely recognised as being the first person to discover the medical benefits of hand washing.
On 20 March 1847, Semmelweis demonstrated the importance of clean hands when he was appointed chief resident in the maternity clinic of the Vienna General Hospital and began requiring all physicians to disinfect their hands with a solution of chlorinated lime.
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