That Mothers Might Live (1938)
Premiere 30 Apr 1938 | 10 min | Drama
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This short film tells the story of Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865), the Hungarian physician who was the first to realize that the deaths of new mothers could be significantly reduced simply by requiring doctors to wash their hands before treating a patient.
