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Book: Paperback. Fair condition. 474 pages. 1969 edition.
Story: Told against the colourful background of the 19th century Vienna and Budapest, when the dream of a free Hungary was crushed by Austrian cannon, this majestic novel lays bear the heartbeat, the will, the compulsions that drove Ignaz Semmelweis to devote his life to medicine. A man consumed with a burning passion, whose pertinacity established that dirty hands do carry infection, particulary to those vulnerable creatures, newly- delivered women.