IMMORTAL MAGYAR: Semmelweis, Conqueror of Childbed Fever

New York: Henry Schuman, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 211p. 

A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Tiny stain on side edge and owner's sticker inside front cover. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is price-clipped and mildly rubbed, and the spine ia tanned. Otherwise intact. Item #193301

THE LIFE OF SCIENCE LIBRARY #15. A biography of Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865) who discovered that midwives disinfecting their hands prevents infections in babies. The author, Frank G. Slaughter, was a prolific novelist and himself a physician.