use the passage to answer the question. which details describe evidence that led dr. semmelweis to conclude…

use the passage to answer the question. which details describe evidence that led dr. semmelweis to conclude that childbed fever could be prevented with handwashing? select the two correct answers. (1 point) in the mid - 19th century, about five women in 1,000 died in deliveries performed by midwives at home. yet when doctors working in the best maternity hospitals in europe and america performed deliveries, the maternal death rate was often 10 to 20 times greater. the cause was, invariably, childbed fever. and a miserable end it was: raging fevers, pus emanating from the birth canal, painful abscesses in the abdomen and chest, and an irreversible descent into an absolute hell of sepsis and death - all within 24 hours of the babys birth. the reason seems readily apparent today, if not back then. medical students and their professors at the elite teaching hospitals of this era typically began their day performing barehanded autopsies on the women who had died the day before of childbed fever. they then proceeded to the wards to examine the laboring women about to deliver their babies. dr. semmelweis was brilliant but had few strikes against him when applying for a position at the vienna general hospital in 1846: he was hungarian and jewish. medicine and surgery, were considered to be the premier specialties in vienna, but because of his background and religion semmelweis was relegated to running the less desirable division of obstetrics. nevertheless, his claim to immortality was the result of an obsession with finding the means to end the childbed fever epidemics that were killing nearly a third of his patients. (the hospital ward run by midwives, without autopsy duties had far better outcomes with their deliveries.)

use the passage to answer the question. which details describe evidence that led dr. semmelweis to conclude that childbed fever could be prevented with handwashing? select the two correct answers. (1 point) in the mid - 19th century, about five women in 1,000 died in deliveries performed by midwives at home. yet when doctors working in the best maternity hospitals in europe and america performed deliveries, the maternal death rate was often 10 to 20 times greater. the cause was, invariably, childbed fever. and a miserable end it was: raging fevers, pus emanating from the birth canal, painful abscesses in the abdomen and chest, and an irreversible descent into an absolute hell of sepsis and death - all within 24 hours of the babys birth. the reason seems readily apparent today, if not back then. medical students and their professors at the elite teaching hospitals of this era typically began their day performing barehanded autopsies on the women who had died the day before of childbed fever. they then proceeded to the wards to examine the laboring women about to deliver their babies. dr. semmelweis was brilliant but had few strikes against him when applying for a position at the vienna general hospital in 1846: he was hungarian and jewish. medicine and surgery, were considered to be the premier specialties in vienna, but because of his background and religion semmelweis was relegated to running the less desirable division of obstetrics. nevertheless, his claim to immortality was the result of an obsession with finding the means to end the childbed fever epidemics that were killing nearly a third of his patients. (the hospital ward run by midwives, without autopsy duties had far better outcomes with their deliveries.)

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The passage mentions that far fewer women died during home and midwife births than during hospital births, suggesting better hygiene in home - births which could imply hand - washing importance. Also, doctors at the hospital performed autopsies on women who had died in childbirth and then examined laboring women, indicating a possible spread of infection through unwashed hands.

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  • Far fewer women died during home and midwife births than during hospital births.
  • Doctors at the hospital performed autopsies on women who had died in childbirth and then examined laboring women.