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CosmicQuantum42 t1_j5335ty wrote

Reply to comment by Rear-gunner in The Black Death may not have been spread by rats after all by Rear-gunner

Maybe they wouldn’t. They probably wouldn’t. Wouldn’t stop me from trying.

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Rear-gunner OP t1_j53ukk9 wrote

Read up on Dr. Semmelweis, a Jewish doctor who first pushed hand washing in the hospitals.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/ignaz-semmelweis-doctor-prescribed-hand-washing

No one accepted his findings. He went crazy

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CosmicQuantum42 t1_j53vcpf wrote

Yeah that wasn’t the best. Thanks for the link.

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Rear-gunner OP t1_j540q3a wrote

Without statistics, a germ theory, and no microscope, it's not an easy sell

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