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In an age where surgeons wore the same stained coats as proof of experience, Ignaz Semmelweis noticed a horror no one else dared to trace — that doctors themselves were carrying death from dissecting rooms into delivery wards. He proved handwashing could save mothers, watched the mortality rate collapse almost overnight… and was laughed at for it. Semmelweis didn’t fail — his century did. Only after his death did medicine turn back and recognize the man it once dismissed as