• caroline@lemmy.fmhy.net
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    11 months ago

    It’s cause the guy was a dick about it… He was correct, but the way he communicated it to the medical community was rude which is why it wasn’t adopted earlier.

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      11 months ago

      So they had a cry and people died because they had their fefe’s hurt when the smart man correctly identified their habits as neanderthalic? Well if that wasn’t proof enough, this sure doesn’t make them seem any more capable or less moronic.

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      11 months ago

      It was a different caption, but the same format and general idea (Semmelweis said that doctors should wash their hands but didn’t say anything about disinfection of tools).

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    11 months ago

    Funny how Semmelweis got similarly shitty treatment for the same idea. Though he wasn’t so much as laughed at as much as beaten to death in a psych ward.

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      11 months ago

      Didn’t know at all about Semmelweis. Very interesting… and sad.

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      He was much earlier though and germ theory didn’t exist yet, so he couldn’t explain why washing your hands would work. It didn’t make any sense based on the medical ideas of the time, so people saw his recommendation to wash hands as a superstition. Then he went insane as doctors continued to not wash their hands, resulting in many mothers dying from infections after birth. At least with Lister, he could explain his rationale via germ theory.