Question

ignaz semmelweis saved lives: wash your hands by dr. howard markel on this date in 1850, a prickly hungarian obstetrician named ignaz semmelweis stepped up to the podium of the vienna medical society’s lecture hall. it was a grand and ornately decorated room where some of medicine’s greatest discoveries were first announced. the evening of may 15 would hardly be different — even if those present (and many more who merely read about it) did not acknowledge semmelweis’s marvelous discovery for several decades. what, exactly, was the doctor’s advice to his colleagues on that long ago night? it could be summed up in three little words: wash your hands! considering the content of the entire text, what is the author’s purpose in bolding the two scientists’ names, joseph lister and robert koch? (1 point) to indicate that in the digital form of the text there are links to more information about these physicians to draw attention to the doctors and scientists who expanded on semmelweis’s breakthroughs to emphasize the landmark scientists who were more successful than semmelweis to show how different physicians made the same discovery as semmelweis but at a later time

Explanation:

The text is about Ignaz Semmelweis' discovery related to handwashing in medicine. Bolding Joseph Lister and Robert Koch's names likely aims to highlight their work that built on Semmelweis' breakthroughs. The first option about digital links is not supported by the text's context (focused on historical medical contributions). The third option about being "more successful" is not implied, and the fourth about same discovery later is incorrect as their work expanded on his, not replicated. So the second option fits: to draw attention to those who expanded on Semmelweis’ breakthroughs.

Answer:

B. to draw attention to the doctors and scientists who expanded on Semmelweis’s breakthroughs