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.
I stand corrected, I had only heard that the doctor was Jewish, which turns out to be wrong.
I stand by my point though, that it isn’t as easy as carrying our knowledge back, it takes a sales pitch too.
“While he was a genius, he was also an asshole and created unnecessary resistance to his approach as a result.”
The norm was death from fever ranging from 10 to 35%. he reduced it to one. I suspect he was an “asshole” because the establishment doesn’t like being shown the error of their ways.
They say he couldn’t fully explain his success. But with that kind of results, it was obvious he had stumbled onto something very big.