They're all dead now, I wonder who got the last laugh?

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• skooks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well he got a mouthwash named after him, there’s always that

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  • Schal330@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And an entire hospital in Stevenage, England.

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    • Lophostemon@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And a crap 80’s pop band.

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  • Rev3rze@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also the bacterial genus known as listeria.

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  • Kiernian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was going to say, I saw the name “Lister” and wondered if there was any connection to “Listerine”.

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    • B1naryB0t@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Listerine was actually developed to disenfect hospital equipment. By Lister.

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• nevemsenki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Didn’t know at all about Semmelweis. Very interesting… and sad.

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    • nevemsenki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He really deserved better. Societal momentum is tough to go against, and can easily beat one down… oftentimes literally.

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  • SuperIce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • BugleFingers@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s especially sad because he had empirical evidence washing his hands worked! New birth death rates dropped and when he eventually opened his own practice death rates were the lowest ever seen. Though he got bitter and angry towards the end which lead to being put in the psych ward. Honestly though, if you knew people were killing babies by negligence and were an empathetic person you’d probably end up the same way regardless of who you are.

      IIRC, the hand wash was a chlorine one that was pretty rough on the skin so people didn’t like to do it. Additionally to accept what he said Dr.s would have to accept they have been killing babies this whole time. I believe one Dr. Agreed with Sammelwise and killed himself because that knowledge haunted him so.

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• felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Too educational for this channel! Mildly interesting perhaps?

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  • SuperIce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, how is this a shitpost?

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• caroline@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • LemmysMum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Microscopic creatures you say… ha, that’s a good laugh 🧐.

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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wasnt the same caption just posted with Semmelweis as the person in the picture?

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  • SuperIce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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).

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• robocall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Look at those long sideburn hairs

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  • RustyShackleford@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They are called mutton chops. Also, seen on Lemmy Kilmister.

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    • yemmly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ur called mutton chops

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    • Jimbo@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Haha, lemmy

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    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Who’s bigger, Lemmy or God?

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• jenny_ball@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Listerine

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• shasta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Whomever died last, probably.

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