Semmelweis Syndrome
1- Title of unpublished manuscript by Burke Wallace Pond.
2- Being informed of a better method yet refusing to adopt it.
3- Adherence to dogma and doctrine in lieu of common sense or better information.
4- Resistance to change or improvement.
"Described as the "saviour of mothers", Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever (also known as "childbed fever") could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics. Puerperal fever was common in mid-19th-century hospitals and often fatal. Semmelweis proposed the practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions in 1847 while working in Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had three times the mortality of midwives' wards. He published a book of his findings in Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever.
Despite various publications of results where hand washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. Semmelweis could offer no acceptable scientific explanation for his findings, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands. Semmelweis's practice earned widespread acceptance only years after his death, when Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory and Joseph Lister, acting on the French microbiologist's research, practiced and operated, using hygienic methods, with great success. In 1865, Semmelweis was committed to an asylum, where he died at age 47 of pyaemia, after being beaten by the guards, only 14 days after he was committed."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis: In the nineteenth century, Ignaz Semmelweis 1818-65 fought with all his might, to convince surgeons that it was necessary to sanitize their tools, of course they ridiculed him as long as he could take no more. Ignatius Semmelweis (Ignaz Semmelweis 1818-65) is the father of asypsia and keeping microbes away from the patient. A worker at Vienna General Hospital noticed that the death rate in the hospital wards where students were trained was three times that of other wards.
Searching for the cause of the phenomenon, he discovered that students were coming to the wards straight from the morgue and examining the patients without washing beforehand. He thus established the disinfection of hands before entering the wards and before examining every patient finding that in the following months the mortality rate will drop steeply. Of course not the medical establishment didn’t like that because their own hands were always “clean”.
They were so riddled that they found washing their hands unheard of and insulting. These were gentlemen and therefore due to their social status their hands were on their own clean whatever they caught wherever they put them. The size of stupidity carried by the human animal through centuries is unheard of. In 1865 Hebra undertook to put him in the foundation. He told him that they would go see the new institutes he had opened.
When Ignaz Semmelweis realized they were going to put him in asylum it was already too late. He was caught by the institution's security guys, beat him up black, put a robe on him and locked him in isolation. For two weeks they beat him, washed him with cold water and stuffed him with laxatives and castor oil. And over two weeks (13 August 1865) Ignaz Semmelweis died.
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