Sanitation

• Ignaz Semelweis (1818-1857 C.E.)

  • Importance of hand-washing in Obstetrics

• Florence Nightingale (1823?1910 C.E.)

  • Nursed British soldiers during the Crimean War.
  • First modern nursing instructor
  • Notes on Nursing was the first major text on modern nursing.

• Joseph Lister (1827-1912 C.E.)

  • British surgeon
  • Developed a carbolic acid spray