When Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis proved that washing hands stopped mothers from dying in childbirth, the medical world laughed him out of his own hospital. He died in an asylum, beaten and forgotten. Years later, science caught up and called it “common sense.” #history #medicine | Jermaine Fowler
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