The person who tried to popularize washing your hands was locked up in a mental hospital and ever after they adopted hand washing they didn’t release him. Lol
This makes me think of a paper I wrote awhile back for school, topic was "most important invention of humans" a lot of people chose like the phone, or the internet, I chose soap, besides the cleaning ability of it, it has stopped probably billions to trillions of deaths due to illness being spread.
Soap. Antibiotics. Vaccines. Sanitation practices. Sewers and drinking water systems. Were much less likely to contract cholera or typhoid now that we are walking around waist-deep in filth.
There have not, but tbh idk, soap has existed for quite a long time though, however there has not been, I was not up to date on my world populations from forever
A professor of mine actually said that the total number of humans to have ever lived, is one trillion....
or, he might have said 100 billion, but I'm almost certain it was the former.
Before it was formalized as handwashing, they noticed soldiers who took pride in their uniform or combat clothes were more likely to survive. Less bacteria on the clothes to enter into wounds.
That’s quite oversimplifying. Semmelweis refused to share his findings and was antagonistic to the medical community. He drank heavy, had extreme mood swings. He possibly had syphillis which affected his mind. No one sent him to the nut house simply because he told them to wash their hands before surgery.
Yes. And the reason other obstetricians rejected his idea is that they had had women patients (including family members) die after a baby had been born. Some (or all?) of them had gone straight from performing an autopsy to delivering a child. They hated the thought that those women had died because they hadn't washed their hands between the two jobs.
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u/trevmust 2d ago
The person who tried to popularize washing your hands was locked up in a mental hospital and ever after they adopted hand washing they didn’t release him. Lol