• @skooks
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    4711 months ago

    Well he got a mouthwash named after him, there’s always that

  • @nevemsenki
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    4311 months ago

    Funny how Semmelweis got similarly shitty treatment for the same idea. Though he wasn’t so much as laughed at as much as beaten to death in a psych ward.

      • @nevemsenki
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        1611 months ago

        He really deserved better. Societal momentum is tough to go against, and can easily beat one down… oftentimes literally.

    • @SuperIce
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      811 months ago

      He was much earlier though and germ theory didn’t exist yet, so he couldn’t explain why washing your hands would work. It didn’t make any sense based on the medical ideas of the time, so people saw his recommendation to wash hands as a superstition. Then he went insane as doctors continued to not wash their hands, resulting in many mothers dying from infections after birth. At least with Lister, he could explain his rationale via germ theory.

  • @felixwhynot
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    2211 months ago

    Too educational for this channel! Mildly interesting perhaps?

    • @SuperIce
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      411 months ago

      Yeah, how is this a shitpost?

  • @[email protected]
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    1811 months ago

    It’s cause the guy was a dick about it… He was correct, but the way he communicated it to the medical community was rude which is why it wasn’t adopted earlier.

    • @LemmysMum
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      11 months ago

      So they had a cry and people died because they had their fefe’s hurt when the smart man correctly identified their habits as neanderthalic? Well if that wasn’t proof enough, this sure doesn’t make them seem any more capable or less moronic.

      • @Thermal_shocked
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        511 months ago

        People don’t generally listen to dicks, feelings or not. I’m not wastingy time listening, even if you’re right, if you’re the ass hole everyone hates.

        • @LemmysMum
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          011 months ago

          Wilful ignorance is a detrimental trait, you’d let your ego get in the way of improving your capacity as a person? Sounds pretty pathetic.

      • @Spaceballstheusername
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        211 months ago

        No he had no reason or justification as to why it was happening. He also refuses to do any experiment to prove he was right. That’s why no one took him seriously because he sounded like a crazy person.

  • @robocall
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    1111 months ago

    Look at those long sideburn hairs

  • @kameecoding
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    1011 months ago

    Wasnt the same caption just posted with Semmelweis as the person in the picture?

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      11 months ago

      It was a different caption, but the same format and general idea (Semmelweis said that doctors should wash their hands but didn’t say anything about disinfection of tools).