Why Did Dr

Multiple Choice

Why did Dr. Semmelweiss think that that improved ventilation at the hospital might help decrease incidence of childbed fever?

A) Everyone does better in fresh air.
B) Increased oxygen levels tend to decrease incidence of infection in general.
C) Miasma, a type of fly known to transmit disease, are attracted to bad odors and better ventilation might eliminate those.
D) Improved ventilation would more quickly remove miasma, or toxic vapors thought to be exhaled by sick people.
E) Diseases were thought to be transmitted by miasma, or sweat, so improved ventilation might cool patients, minimizing sweating.