That Mothers Might Live

That Mothers Might Live

🎞️ Movie 10 min US
โ˜… 6.4 /10 1938

It's the mid-nineteenth century. As long as their have been hospitals, the joy that women have felt having just given birth in a hospital may be quickly marred by their sudden death due to what is known as childbed fever, its cause unknown. Dr. Semmelweis, who many women come to specifically to assist in their childbirth, is not immune to patients who have died in such a way. By happenstance, Dr. Semmelweis eventually discovered the reason for the illness was mere sanitation, and the need for doctors to wash their hands after each procedure. Coming to this realization and convincing the world, especially the established medical community, are two different things. Dr. Semmelweiss, who published a book on the subject, may not have gotten the recognition for this discovery during his lifetime as he tried to make his findings known and accepted, but that word would eventually spread to be commonplace and taken for granted as truth today.

Cast

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John Nesbitt
Narrator
Shepperd Strudwick
Shepperd Strudwick
Dr. Semmelweis
Rudolph Anders
Rudolph Anders
Doctor
King Baggot
King Baggot
Passerby
William Bailey
William Bailey
Passerby
Barbara Bedford
Barbara Bedford
Nun Reading Book
Ralph Brooks
Ralph Brooks
Medical Student at Lecture
Mary Howard
Mary Howard
Young Stricken Mother
Leonard Penn
Leonard Penn
Semmelweis' Assistant
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Beatrice Roberts
Passerby
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David Snell
Composer
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Harold Rosson
Cinematographer