The first clue as to the cause of childbed fever came when
A) A priest bearing the last sacrament came to a woman's deathbed.
B) Women were delivered lying on their backs.
C) A colleague received a puncture wound during an autopsy.
D) The medical washed their hands in a solution of chlorinated lime.

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The first clue to the cause of childbed fever came when a colleague of Ignaz Semmelweis, the Hungarian physician who is associated with the discovery of the cause of the disease, died from a wound infection that closely resembled the symptoms of childbed fever. This incident led Semmelweis to hypothesize that the disease was spread by cadaveric particles transferred by doctors' hands from autopsies to the women during childbirth.

The First Clue as to the Cause of Childbed Fever