Name: The Shocking Reason Doctors HATED Washing Their Hands🧼
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when doctors didn't wash their hands between

performing an autopsy and delivering a baby?

Jubbal medschoolinsiders.com Modern medicine has taken a long time

that propelled our understanding forward.

Without the following medical breakthroughs,

that vaccinations have no scientific backing.

Y Hand washing While it may sound incredibly strange Today,

the sanitary benefits of washing your hands were not

Hungarian doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis wanted

of maternal mortality due to puerperal fever,

He began collecting data in two maternity wards,

This was after ruling out his first two hypotheses,

the first being that women should give birth

After a vacation taken out of frustration,

he returned to find out his friend and colleague,

after pricking his finger while performing an autopsy.

Semmelweis realized that his friend also died from puerperal fever,

meaning women were not the only ones infected.

Semmelweis further realized that the main

difference between the two maternity wards was

that the doctors performed autopsies while the midwives did not.

Semmelweis then hypothesized that doctors had cadaverous particles

from performing autopsies when they delivered babies,

and these particles were getting inside the women

who would then develop puerperal fever and die.

to wash their hands and medical instruments

This caused the rate of puerperal fever to fall massively

But unfortunately, the male doctors and med

students didn't appreciate the blame falling on them.

to wash their hands and medical instruments.

he was not convincing and it did not catch on.

not appreciate being told directly and aggressively

that they were responsible for killing patients.

After suffering a nervous breakdown and developing a mental condition,

he was committed to a mental asylum by his colleagues.

he protested and was savagely beaten by the guards,

where it's thought he sustained a hand injury

The autopsy revealed sepsis, an extreme reaction to an infection

which is essentially the same disease Semmelweis fought against

The next medical breakthrough is germ theory.

Germs, the microscopic bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa

that can cause disease, were not always known

which suggested that diseases were caused by bad air

at best misguided and at worst controlled by evil spirits.

In 1861, Louis Pasteur published his germ theory of disease.

Building off of Pasteur's work, British surgeon Joseph Lister realized

that compound fractures, also known as open fractures,

because of their exposure to environmental microorganisms.

In 1865, he started to spray carbolic acid on wounds,

and overall hospital mortality caused by infectious disease dropped dramatically.

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The Shocking Reason Doctors HATED Washing Their Hands🧼

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