Use the passages to answer the question.

"Ignaz Semmelweis Saved Lives: Wash Your Hands"

"1847: Wash Your Hands"

Which of the following details from the first text is clarified further in the second text?

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His plea was far more than aesthetic; it was a matter of life and death and helped to prevent a deadly malady known as “childbed” or puerperal (from the Latin words for child and parent) fever
His plea was far more than aesthetic; it was a matter of life and death and helped to prevent a deadly malady known as “childbed” or puerperal (from the Latin words for child and parent) fever

Medicine and surgery were considered to be the premier specialties in Vienna
Medicine and surgery were considered to be the premier specialties in Vienna

The hospital ward run by midwives, without autopsy duties, had far better outcomes with their deliveries.
The hospital ward run by midwives, without autopsy duties, had far better outcomes with their deliveries.

Dr. Semmelweis was brilliant but had two strikes against him when applying for a position at the Vienna General Hospital in 1846: he was Hungarian and Jewish

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The hospital ward run by midwives, without autopsy duties, had far better outcomes with their deliveries.
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