Blind from Birth

The Experts just couldn’t grasp the truth.

In the mid-1800s, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was working in a hospital in Vienna. He noticed something terrifying:

Women giving birth in doctors' wards were dying at much higher rates than those in midwives’ wards—from what was called childbed fever.

He investigated and found something astonishingly simple: Doctors were going straight from autopsies to delivering babies... without washing their hands.

He ordered handwashing with a chlorine solution.

The death rate plummeted.

You’d think the medical community would celebrate him. But instead:

They mocked him. They rejected his findings. They said he was insulting their profession.

Why?

Because the idea that a doctor’s own hands could kill a patient was too offensive. Too humiliating. They couldn't see the truth, even as it stared them in the face—lives were being saved.

Semmelweis died before his discovery was widely accepted. Only later, through the work of Pasteur and others, did the world realize he’d been right all along.

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