Posted on 12/12/2019 8:39:59 AM PST by Perseverando
Washing hands to prevent the spread of disease was recommended in 1844 to the doctors of the Vienna General Hospital by Dr. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis.
Semmelweis had noticed that doctors would go straight from doing autopsies on those who died of puerperal fever to delivering babies and soon after the mothers would die of puerperal fever.
Nearly 25 percent of all mothers giving birth in hospital maternity wards died of puerperal fever, with epidemics sometimes reaching 100 percent.
Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was ridiculed so much for his "hand-washing" suggestion that he was forced to leave Vienna and eventually died in a mental asylum.
In America, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., made the same suggestion, publishing an article "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever" (New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 1843).
Holmes, who coined the word "anesthesia," recommended that after doctors examined patients that died of fatal illness, they should purify their instruments and burn contaminated clothing, stating:
"I beg to be heard in behalf of the women whose lives are at stake, until some stronger voice shall plead for them."
Just as with Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, medical professionals criticized Holmes and rejected his recommendations, resulting in a high number of soldiers during the Civil War dying from infections.
It was not until Louis Pasteur confirmed the existence of microscopic germs that "hand-washing" became an accepted medical practice to prevent the spread of disease.
Louis Pasteur's studies of infectious microbiology influenced Dr. Joseph Lister in Scotland to pioneer sterile surgery.
"Listerine" antiseptic mouthwash was named for him.
Dr. Joseph Liste r stated: "I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity."
Dr. Lister told a graduating class:
"It is our proud office to tend the fleshly tabernacle
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I never knew or thought about the association with Listerine. Pasteur has pasteurization, but Lister has a mouthwash..
The great current scandal in terms of modern medicine not being honest is colloidal silver
Colloidal silver effectively kills all viruses and bacteria the medical establishment knows it but because you can make it for free at home and they have nothing to do with it they will only tell you that it works topically and not internally
Silver is in 23,000 current approved medical products
And we also have “Zeros to heroes: Ulcer truth was hard to stomach”
No one would believe that bacteria caused stomach ulcers – until Barry Marshall swallowed some
BACK in 1984, a young Australian doctor called Barry Marshall swallowed a nasty-tasting solution of bacteria. This was no accident. He did it to convince his peers that his suspicions about a highly prevalent disease were not as far-fetched as they thought.
In 1981, Marshall had met pathologist Robin Warren, who had found curved bacteria in inflamed stomach tissue. In further studies, they found that this bacterium, later named Helicobacter pylori, was present in most people who had inflammation or ulcers of the stomach or gut. Like two long-forgotten German researchers in 1875, they concluded that these bacteria were to blame.
“I was met with constant criticism that my conclusions were premature,” Marshall later wrote. “My results were disputed and disbelieved, not on the basis of science but because they simply could not be true.”
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727772-000-zeros-to-heroes-ulcer-truth-was-hard-to-stomach/
The science was settled by hundreds of scientists, you see.
This is what too much looks like.
Yikes!
It’s amazing how little the attitudes of medicos have changed.
That’s what drinking quarts (of an incorrectly prepared goop containing silver) for years looks like.
Yes, I know. Did you not see the line ABOVE the photo? It said “DO NOT OVERDO IT.”
As in: “This is what too much looks like.”
Geez, try a little humorous demonstration and get “corrected” by the silver brigade. Bruuuther.
Poppa Smurf!
Yes, I saw the line above the photo that said “do not overdo it”, but “overdoing it” was less of an issue than the garbage this guy brewed.
I’m not a part of any “brigade”, I’m concerned that your attempt at humor by presenting this long-discredited doofus might dissuade others from investigating/using a potentially beneficial substance (properly prepared silver has a wide latitude regarding the amount consumed).
bkmk
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