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Who Taught Doctors to Wash Their Hands? The History of Asepsis and Antisepsis
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“First, wash your hands, and then you may eat.” Sometimes this rule can be really annoying, but we have it for a reason. We wash our hands to minimize contact with pathogenic microorganisms. But imagine how people lived when they had no clue that microbes existed! And that was only a century and a half ago.
Story told by Garrett Tucker.
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