[Balding_Eagle]

Doctors who tried to advance the cause of simply washing hands between patients were singled out and ostracized.

Even when the science proved that washing hands before assisting in childbirth saved lives, the Jewish doctor who ‘invented’ it died a broken man.

It would be a lot tougher than we think

[cardinal4]

Another oddity of that era were Barber-Surgeons. Doctors or Physicians were deemed to "good" to perform "surgery" so the Barber-Surgeons did it. Since barbers already had razors and cutting implements it kind of fell on them. They even had their own guild.

Susanna Gregory's "Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew", a Cambridge professor of medicine in the 1360s, provides great research into medical techniques of that era. Great mysteries, too..

[Sherman Logan]

Sorry, but Ignaz Semmelweis was not Jewish.

While he was a genius, he was also an asshole and created unnecessary resistance to his approach as a result.

Much the same was true of Galileo, BTW. Newton was also a 1st class asshole, but came out on top anyway.