"The Death Of Medicine" is the startling saga of the man called "The Savior Of Mothers". Historians have given Doctor Ignaz Semmelweis this honor because he miraculously reduced death rates in every maternity clinic that he directed. However, even in the present day, there is not only a possibility, but perhaps even a probability that the devastating epidemics confronted by Doctor Semmelweis could recur. Therefore, his innovations are relevant not only to mothers and mothers-to-be but to people everywhere. Even in modern times there are those who doubt the link Doctor Semmelweis created between the fevers that were killing thousands of women and the cause he assigned to these deaths. The same nonchalance and disbelief toward what Doctor Semmelweis called "particles" still exists in the attitude toward public hygiene by much of the populace around the world. Why should anyone believe these 'black magic' ideas that date to the eye-opening results that Semmelweis's innovations achieved? Why should anyone believe in his life-saving theory if his ideas defy all logic and depend on invisible actors? Doctor Semmelweis confronted one of the greatest medical mysteries of all time and paved the way for the ideas of Pasteur and Lister to be accepted decades later. Why have most people never read his incredible story? That's one of the greater shocks of this fictional biography based on real events and statistics. "The Death Of Medicine" details Doctor Semmelweis's excruciating struggle so that we citizens of the world remember how and why our knowledge developed, so that we appreciate why we no longer have the incredible death rates that prevailed before Doctor Semmelweis's crusade, and so that we preserve the gains of his discoveries by examining their roots.
