Semmelweis did not go insane. He was actually one of the fathers of evidence-based medicine by counting number of death in hospitals after child-birth. He dis

Semmelweis did not go insane. He was actually one of the fathers of evidence-based medicine by counting number of death in hospitals after child-birth. He discovered that when women where treated by doctors MORE deaths occurred than when women where treated by nurses. The reason for this might have been that the doctors also dissected corpses at university and brought germs from this when examining women. That was the problem of the message: He postulated that his peers, the noble doctors were directly responsible for a high number of deaths. This was a message nobody wanted to hear. Since he became more and more outspoken and angry that nobody believed him, they shut him up by luring him into an asylum where he died. Later his methods were approved, since the young students had no bad conscience about having indirectly killed women in their career.