
Dispatch 2: Every Day is Ignaz Semmelweis Day
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Semelweis's Perporeal Fever
In the 19th century, Hungarian doctor Ignos Semelweis discovered a cure for Properal Fever. The simple act of rubbing your hands together with some soap or bleach would be the key to the 2000-year old mystery. Nancy Grace: He was stuck in his own time and beyond his own clinic, his idea didn't really catch on. If only he could have lived to see Steph Curry or LeBron James urge their millions of followers to wash their hands but alas, he could not.
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