Over the course of a single generation, without significant discussion or debate, a key practice of traditional medicine was almost completely abandoned in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. K. Codell Car
Carter (philosophy, Brigham Young U.) realized after college that he knew quite a bit more about physics than he had any practical use for, and nearly nothing about medicine, which he encountered dail
In 1859 a Hungarian obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis, reflecting on his years as resident in the Vienna maternity clinic, wrote a graphic account of his attempt to diagnose and eliminate the then
