زمان آینده

THE SAVIOUR OF MOTHERS

Future

Semmelweis will be from Hungary. As a young man, he will go to Austria to go to university.

Where will he go to university? He will go to university in Austria.

Semmelweis is going to study law at first, but then he will become a medical student. He is going to specialize in the treatment of pregnant women. After graduating from medical school in 1846, he will become a doctor.

When will he graduate? He will graduate in 1846.

He is going to work in the Vienna hospital, one of the most famous and respected hospitals in Europe.

Is he going to work in France? No, he isn’t going to work in France. He is going to work in Vienna.

The Vienna hospital will have two clinics that treat pregnant women and new mothers.

How many clinics will the Vienna hospital have? The Vienna hospital will have two clinics.

Doctors and medical students will work in the first clinic. Midwives will work in the second clinic. The second clinic, with the midwives, is going to be for poor women who do not have the money to be treated by doctors. Strangely, it is going to be this second clinic where both rich and poor women want to have their babies.

Which clinic will be more popular? The second clinic will be more popular.

The second clinic is always going to be crowded, and women are going to beg to go there. Even though the first clinic will be more expensive and have many highly educated doctors, many women are going to die there.

What is going to happen to women in the first clinic? Women in the first clinic are going to die.

At that time, puerperal fever will kill more than 10 percent of pregnant women and new mothers at the first clinic.

How many women will die in the first clinic? Ten percent of women will die in the first clinic.

At the clinic with midwives, only one percent of women will die from this fever.

How many women will die in the second clinic? One percent of women will die at the second clinic.

These are going to be healthy women. They will enter the hospital in good health and a few days later they will die.