Thinking a lot about Ignaz Semmelweis these days, who predated Louis Pasteur in discovering that doctors could pass germs between patients on their unwashed hands, and was driven insane by the public rejection of his work. Posthumously his research is celebrated and central to disease prevention. I picked up The Doctors’ Plague off an Upper West Side sidewalk and it’s one of my most memorable reads. I hope we do not return to medieval times of medicine.
The tragic story of the doctor who first said: wash your hands
Dr Ignaz Semmelweis was a man way ahead of his times as there’s one piece of advice you will find hard to miss: WASH YOUR HANDS.
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