Saviour of mothers: This scientist pioneered handwashing way back in 1847

He later published his findings in a book titled 'Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever'

As the deadly new coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to spread and hand sanitizers disappear at both retail and online stores, Google researchers have dug out a German-Hungarian physician and scientist known as the "saviour of mothers" by proposing handwashing way back in 1847.

Celebrating the efforts of Dr Ignaz Semmelweis in the times of hand sanitizing and cleanliness to prevent the spread the germs on top of every human's mind of Earth.

Born in 1818, Semmelweis was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. He discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever (also known as "childbed fever") could be drastically cut by the use