Funny how Semmelweis got similarly shitty treatment for the same idea. Though he wasn’t so much as laughed at as much as beaten to death in a psych ward.
They're all dead now, I wonder who got the last laugh?
Submitted 11 months ago by WashedOver@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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nevemsenki@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 11 months ago
Didn’t know at all about Semmelweis. Very interesting… and sad.
nevemsenki@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He really deserved better. Societal momentum is tough to go against, and can easily beat one down… oftentimes literally.
SuperIce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He was much earlier though and germ theory didn’t exist yet, so he couldn’t explain why washing your hands would work. It didn’t make any sense based on the medical ideas of the time, so people saw his recommendation to wash hands as a superstition. Then he went insane as doctors continued to not wash their hands, resulting in many mothers dying from infections after birth. At least with Lister, he could explain his rationale via germ theory.
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Too educational for this channel! Mildly interesting perhaps?
SuperIce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, how is this a shitpost?
caroline@lemmy.fmhy.net 11 months ago
It’s cause the guy was a dick about it… He was correct, but the way he communicated it to the medical community was rude which is why it wasn’t adopted earlier.
LemmysMum@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So they had a cry and people died because they had their fefe’s hurt when the smart man correctly identified their habits as neanderthalic? Well if that wasn’t proof enough, this sure doesn’t make them seem any more capable.
Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People don’t generally listen to dicks, feelings or not. I’m not wastingy time listening, even if you’re right, if you’re the ass hole everyone hates.
Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No he had no reason or justification as to why it was happening. He also refuses to do any experiment to prove he was right. That’s why no one took him seriously because he sounded like a crazy person.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Microscopic creatures you say… ha, that’s a good laugh 🧐.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wasnt the same caption just posted with Semmelweis as the person in the picture?
SuperIce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was a different caption, but the same format and general idea (Semmelweis said that doctors should wash their hands but didn’t say wnything about disinfection of tools).
robocall@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Look at those long sideburn hairs
RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 11 months ago
They are called mutton chops. Also, seen on Lemmy Kilmister.
Jimbo@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Haha, lemmy
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Who’s bigger, Lemmy or God?
jenny_ball@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Listerine
shasta@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Whomever died last, probably.
skooks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well he got a mouthwash named after him, there’s always that
Schal330@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And an entire hospital in Stevenage, England.
Lophostemon@aussie.zone 11 months ago
And a crap 80’s pop band.
Rev3rze@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Also the bacterial genus known as listeria.
Kiernian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was going to say, I saw the name “Lister” and wondered if there was any connection to “Listerine”.
B1naryB0t@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Listerine was actually developed to disenfect hospital equipment. By Lister.