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an example is Dr. Semmelweis's discovery of the cause and cure of childbed fever. For over a half a century after that women still died in agony after childbearing. Eventually the culture caught up to it and the illness which had accounted for a huge percentage of female deaths ceased to exist. Dr. Semme1weis's discovery of its prevention was "ahead of its time." Pathetically, scoffed and disbelieved, he even died to prove he was right. (HCOB 14 May 69 II)