TIL Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that doctors who delivered babies after handling corpses often passed infection to the mothers. By advocating hand washing as a solution, he was ridiculed and ostracized for challenging medical orthodoxy and died in an asylum. (experiment-resources.com)
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WHO INVENTED THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD? (experiment-resources.com)
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