Hopefully you wash your hands multiple times a day. But when did we start with this practice? How did hand washing become a thing? It has to do with babies and corpses and Vienna in the 19th century.

00:00 - 01: 42 Do You Wash Your Hands?
01:43 - 02:57 Childbed Fever
02:58 - 04:06 Ignaz Semmelweis Observations
04:07 - 06:05 The Solution
06:06 - 09:04 Why Semmelweis is forgotten

Sources:

Caroline M De Costa - “The contagiousness of childbed fever”: a short history of puerperal sepsis and its treatment
Baron Joseph Lister - The Classic: On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery
Lim, Fidelindo - Why Florence Nightingale still matters
P M Dunn - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) and his essay on puerperal fever
Dana Tulodziecki - Shattering the Myth of Semmelweis
Christine Hallet - The Attempt to Understand Puerperal Fever in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: The Influence of Inflammation Theory
Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis’ studies of death in childbirth - Irvine Loudon

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