Ignaz Semmelweis and the Vienna School of Medicine Jane Bartlett Al-Qata'i: Ibn Tulun's City Without

Al-Qata'i: Ibn Tulun's City Without Walls tells the epic story of visionary Egyptian leader Ahmad Ibn Tulun who built Al-Qata'i (now Cairo) into a thriving multicultural empire

from birth to adolescence

Lloyd Kramer deftly demonstrates how unsettling journeys challenged cultural preconceptions and fostered introspective writings that transcended geographical boundaries

but how we say it -- and more importantly

From April to July 1994

Ignaz Semmelweis and the Vienna School of Medicine Jane Bartlett Al-Qata'i: Ibn Tulun's City WithoutBased on newly available documents and others translated for the first time, physician Nicholas Kadar sheds important new light on the thinking of the celebrated Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis (1818 1865) at the Vienna School of Medicine, where he discovered the cause and prophylaxis of childbed fever, one of the greatest findings in the history of medicine. Drawing a portrait of an era open to the possibilities of antiseptics vitally important in