Dispatch 2: Every Day is Ignaz Semmelweis Day
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Ignis Semelwise's Big Breakthrough Didn't Break Through
In the early 1860s, Ignis Semelwise seems to go into rapid decline. He was married and had a family, but he just started living openly with a prostitute. The cause of that decline is something historians debate. In any case, he was institutionalized, but he didn't last more than two weeks.
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