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Tag: Ignaz Semmelweis

  • Honoring the patron saint of hand washing

    Holy water and chlorinated lime Let’s at least beatify on the yellow-brick road to sainthood one Ignaz Semmelweis. He proved empirically in the Vienna of the 1840s that physicians should wash their hands. Folks! This was a breakthrough! Somehow, everyone alive today is here despite the stupidity that committed Semmelweis to an insane asylum, where he died…