Ignaz Semmelweis’s death certificate

Beginning in 1861, Semmelweis suffered from various nervous complaints. He suffered from severe depression and became absentminded. He died in a Viennese insane asylum located in Lazarettgasse, on August 13, 1865, aged 47, from a gangrenous wound, due to an infection on his right hand which might have been caused by the struggle. The autopsy gave the cause of death as pyemia - blood poisoning.