The surprising history of hand-washing - BBC REEL
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2020
- Until the mid-1800s, doctors didn’t wash their hands. They believed diseases were spread by bad smells.
This is the story of doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, who in the 19th Century fought to convince his fellow doctors that washing their hands could save patients’ lives. But despite the success of his theory, he met a tragic end.
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When knowledge is scarce you could be Semmelweis or you could be the doctors arguing that bad smells are the problem.
Ignaz Semmelweis in Hungary in Budapest a big Health Center with lot's of clinics healing and researching in various way in medicine world, this big clinics name is SOTE ( Semmelweis Orvostudományi Egyetem - Semmelweis Health science University ) , and next to the center the Underground Metro line 3 have a station names is Semmelweis Clinics...
In Hungary a sentences say the people about Ignaz Semmelweis :
The man who save the mothers...
The big sad about his life, he was died in a psyhatric class in a hospital...
It's mind-boggling to me how little people have washed their hands pre-pandemic. I wash my hands after I come home BEFORE TOUCHING ANYTHING ELSE, when my dog licks my hands, when I touch my outdoor stuff like keys...
My mother in law is living with us and she’ll be making food in the kitchen then go to the toilet for a poop and get straight back to cooking again. I can’t bring myself to eat or drink anything she offers me lol
I wake up pet, take a leak, pet my dogs, jerk off, and then eat breakfast. Only then do I take a shower if I'm not too lazy.
You're literally making yourself a weak little pussy
@@Mythics1honestly as nasty as it is this is better for you. Helps build your immune system. Their is a balance between being to clean and making yourself prone to getting sick
simple but great impact
It’s sad and scary how ignorance and fear have persisted throughout the ages.
Sadder still, and more scary, that harm from ignorance and fear affect those who are not ignorant or fearful.
"Fighting to stay ignorant."
And I might add: Proudly and sometimes militantly.
I hope we find a vaccine for that someday...
Those would probably be just the people to refuse a vaccine unfortunately!
so ironic, they found it you’ll be able to take it soon
Yeah no cure yet for stupid yet unfortunately. They still call the smarter ones "crazy" too.
Notice any parallels between this and whats going on today with the pandemic? Anti maskers, anti vaxxers, now anti hand washers...history really does repeat itself.
@@happyme9010 shut up
Religious men wash hands and feet five times a day.
Well some do.
Semelweis (named "The Savior Of Mothers") was lured into an insane asylum by his colleagues where he was beaten and tortured, and died after two weeks. That's what happens when you go up against the medical establishment.
I already feel nostalgic about this topic
I’m gonna wash my hands and phone after this comment
There is espeacial sanitazers for phones
Our Prophet Muhammad told us about cleanliness 1400 years ago and he stated that "Cleaning is half of you faith" emphasizing how important it is.
Why didn't people wash hands before this scientists told so. Were your preacher not good at preacher or followers were stupid?
Don't bring religious BS at everything. Give credit to the guy who deserves it.
Judaism and then following Islam had created hand washing thousands of years before Semmelweis. In fact Semmelweis was ridiculed for following a “Jewish superstition”.
Lol yea but he wants you to wash sin off your feet, not germs off your hands
Surprising doctors did not wash their hands before surgery.
Worse yet put the guy who suggested they do in the nut house. "Misinformation".
Indoor plumbing with chemically treated water was not available either.
Un-ironically ignores Terrain Theory and the benefits to the immune system of exposure to bacteria. Crazy times.
Following the science doesn’t always lead to ground breaking discoveries. Prior, the established science did not, on majority, wash their hands. You can only explain extreme frustration when the results were swell yet undercut by the majority
The real moral of the story is that medical community attack him the most. Because the consensus in medicine was different of what is causing illnesses. Where else we hear the 97% of scientist agree on.... ? People wrongly assume that mainstream/established science is what drives progress forward. The biggest breakthroughs are from the people who have ''crazy'' ideas and are constantly attacked and despised by established science.
There is many examples even today.
Aka "how can I reduce this person's life to something I can use to push my agenda that pseudoscientific ideas are true"
@@juiceoverflow LOL! Einstein revolutionary our understanding of space and physics while he was employed in the patent office. He was not working in some university or institute. Mainstream science mostly guards old knowledge and do not invent something new or drive progress forward.
There so many examples in history. Only people who don't know history thinks that everything outside of mainstream science is pseudo-science.
You can just be dumb and think that everything mainstream is 110% true.
@@Kintabl so let me guess, evolution, vaccine research, the big bang theory, and virology are all bunk?
@@juiceoverflow So let me guess, you are that person who thinks that know some person's entire world view by one statement?
And no, I'm not antivaxxer or that I think that Earth and universe was created by god 6000 years ago.
Words of wisdom for today alternative treatment or natural immunity being rejected why?
I have to nag my family to wash their hands
The Butchering Art brought me here.
The title is very misleading. Conspiracy theorists are going to quote this thumbnail .
Click-bait headline, or mis-worded headline?
European Hygiene
And Egyptians the real true black Egyptians where doing that for thousands of years earlier
Wow all this time this why we been having these Pandemics cause of alack of hand washing
Partially, society still had to function and masks aren't the most effective prevention method.
I do remember hearing 'bout medical companies refused to give free COVID-19 shots to poorer countries from some people at work. Which is why they believe we still have COVID-19 as they believe COVID-19 mutated as it was effecting a bunch of the world's most poorest.
Wouldn't know though, didn't look into it. If it is true all I gotta say is that I hate the greedy ass world we live in.
Some people were just ignaz mofos
LOL, well this didn't age well! The irony that she was angry that people wouldn't do what "consensus" said was right, and now in 2023 we know that most of the measures taken - many forced -did way more harm than good and society will be paying for it for decades to come.
What do you mean by that?
Water should be wash water
Dont rub hands on dirty towel.
i'm early
Firts
What is 'firts'?
You mean FIRST
Cyrus John I think he meant „farts“
@@kobusg7460 that's what i mean
Wild how this video completely ignores midwives at the same hospitals. The women they helped give birth didn’t die. Disappointing that was left out.
This is why scientific consensus (especially related to "Climate Change (tm)") doesn't mean much.
and yet we’re literally repeating history with masking 😵💫🫠