Bob the Traveler
Ignaz Semmelweis, who died OTD in 1865, was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures in #medicine https://toilet-guru.com/cholera-pump.html?s=mb #history #microbiology
Cholera and John Snow's Pump — Victorian Plumbing

Dr John Snow discovered the source of the 1854 cholera epidemic in London. He disabled this pump and ended the outbreak, and is now a hero of public health. All this and more on the Toilets of the World.

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@bobthetraveler radical move in the 1800s. Unfortunately medicine is still grasping to hand washin as the primary prevention strategy. The are fighting airborne transmission of diseases such as COVID.