That’s because in his day, not even doctors cared to wash their hands. The physicians, Semmelweis realized, had been dissecting infected cadavers with their bare hands. ADNow Semmelweis was claiming that those invisible particles on doctors’ hands were to blame. AD“Nobody was pleased to think that doctors were responsible for killing all these women,” Tulodziecki said. Most notably, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. wrote a paper suggesting that the link in 1843, and James Young Simpson in Britain also independently studied it around the same time as Semmelweis, Tulodziecki said.

Source: Washington Post March 23, 2020 10:47 UTC