CLASSIC: Biomedical Big Brother
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Problem With Time Travel Noise
We can journey through history and explore this relationship between just the, what we would call the pure scientific discovery and the medical applications. In 1847, a Hungarian physician named Ignaz-Philippe Semmelweis proposed that maternal death, death during childbirth, could be sharply cut when obstetricians washed their hands before the death of the dead. It wasn't until the 19th century that doctors or the western ones, at least, even began washing their hands.
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