• Jakob Kolletschka (24 July 1803, Biela (now Bělá nad Svitavou), Bohemia – 13 March 1847, Vienna) was Professor of Forensic Medicine at Vienna General...
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    connection between autopsies and puerperal fever after a colleague, Jakob Kolletschka, died of sepsis after accidentally cutting his hand while performing...
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    friend Jakob Kolletschka, who had been accidentally poked with a student's scalpel while performing a post mortem examination. Kolletschka's autopsy...
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    opportunities for them to contaminate their hands. In a lecture in 1846 Jakob Kolletschka is reputed to have said, "It is here no uncommon thing for midwives...
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    Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants. Jakob Kolletschka (1803–1847), Czech-Austrian pathologist and forensic physician "Population...
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    the University of Vienna, where he had as instructors Joseph Škoda, Jakob Kolletschka and Carl von Rokitansky. He earned his doctorate in 1835, afterwards...
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