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Ep 107 Sepsis: It's a mess

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Lister's Cleansing and Cold Water

In Lister's day, a clean room was one that had been recently swept and the windows opened. The ideas of cleanliness and cold water were continually being proposed. Ignaz Semmelweis famously advocated for better hand washing using a chloride solution. But as we know, he was ridiculed and his ideas did not become widely known until after his death.

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