Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #89: Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865) Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865) was a Hungarian physician who identified the need for infection control and antiseptic policy. Semmelweis was not content, as were his colleagues, to regard puerperal fever, the blight of 19th century European birth clinics, to be non-preventable and beyond understanding. Through reason (observation and logic) he discovered that hand washing prevents the infection. Despite this, calculated opposition and ignorant resistance delayed his infection control recommendations until Pasteur proved the germ theory. Semmelweis played a key role in helping humanity control and defeat countless diseases that would otherwise kill scores of individuals each year. Go to #90: Mozart Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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