👏🏽Wash your filthy hands🖕🏽
Wash your hands In 1847, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis suggested to his colleagues (in the business of medicine), that mortality rates could be reduced, by washing their gore smeared hands before plunging them inside the next patient in line. He was duly ridiculed (and probably presented with more than a few bloody middle fingers). He'd figured this out from his observational deductions, working in obstetrics (this and surgery being his areas of expertise), yet it wasn't something he was able to incorporate into a detailed, theoretical explanation. His logic went against the accepted views of the age, causing the medical community to reject his idea outright. Doctors and surgeons were held in high regard at this time, owing to rapidly evolving knowledge and a consequentially growing number of patients surviving previously mortal events. Many took offence at Semmelweis's suggestions, mocking him and causing him and his hair brained noti...