Word: assistantship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steaming Caldron. "Wash your hands!" became the cry of Semmelweis' life. The medical world replied by nicknaming him the Pesth Fool and easing him out of his assistantship. The remaining years of his life were marked by almost incredible persecution. As director of obstetrics in the miserable, tenth-rate Pesth General Hospital, Semmelweis, working day & night to oversee his prophylaxis, finally managed to cut childbed fever mortality to zero. But his assistants sneered at him and his superiors refused to give him or his theories any credit. When his book, The Etiology, the Concept, and the Prophylaxis of Childbed...
Richard J. Stera '50 has received a teaching assistantship to a French school, it was announced yesterday...