Philco Television Playhouse
Semmelweis
Season 2, Episode 39 · Aired 1950-05-28
Synopsis
The biography of the great Austrian doctor who discovered that fever in childbed was caused by the unwashed hands of the doctors themselves.
In the series
This episode is part of Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC.
Chayefsky's kitchen-sink live plays — ordinary lives, extraordinary telecasts.