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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2020-07-03

"If you're baffled at all these people refusing to wear masks, in 1865 they threw the doctor that recommended handwashing in an insane asylum and then beat him to death." -- Jesse Case ([twitter.com profile] jessecase), 2020-06-26 (referring to Ignaz Semmelweis (b. 1818-07-01, d. 1865-08-13), whose story is worth knowing)

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Wow

posted by (anonymous) at 04:28pm on 2020-07-03
Wow, just wow!

Thanks for the new information.
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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 06:25pm on 2020-07-03
Word. I've been referencing him a lot in my discussions of the current plague.
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posted by [personal profile] selki at 06:00pm on 2020-07-05
"The most striking sentence in this NPR piece about the doctor who discovered that handwashing prevents the spread of disease:

"Doctors were upset because Semmelweis' hypothesis made it look like they were the ones giving childbed fever to the women."" -- https://twitter.com/mulegirl/status/1233877042145284102
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