Who Taught Doctors to Wash Their Hands? The History of Asepsis and Antisepsis
Podcast: OYLA PodcastPublished On: Mon Nov 20 2023
Description: "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. You can discover even more about science and the world around us in our magazine, so head over to oyla.us to check it out!
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