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1. Dr. Josephine _________ taught child care workers to wash their hands when taking care of children and _________.2. Doctors thought it was humiliating to wash their ________. Also, water was often thought to contain _________. It had

to be heated over a fire too.3. 200 years ago, people didn’t know that _________ caused disease.

4. Louis Pasteur, who invented ____________, believed in Ignaz’s work. At a convention where a doctor was ridiculing Ignaz’s ideas, Louis shouted at him.

5. When doctors and nurses listened to Ignaz, few or no women _________. 6. Ignaz tried to convince the nurses and doctors to _________ their hands.

7. Ignaz died from one of the same _________ he was trying to prevent. He was still ridiculed at his _________.8. Ignaz was born in _________ in 1818. He studied to become a doctor in Vienna, _________ .

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