Musical theater production chronicling 'the father of hand-washing' to stream online

For those of you who are fans of musical theater and medicine, the 2018 production of "Semmelweis," which chronicles the story of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis, will be streaming online for a month starting this Sunday. Semmelweis discovered in the mid-1800s that regular hand-washing with a soap solution drastically cut down on infections among women who had just given birth. Semmelweis' discovery came before Pasteur's germ theory, however, and so the Hungarian doctor's findings were ridiculed and Semmelweis was stripped of his credentials. He was later admitted to an asylum, and it was only decades later that his recommendation that doctors regularly wash their hands was widely accepted and validated, earning him "the father of hand-washing" moniker. The production will be available to view here.