The Story of A Doctor Killed For Saying “Wash Your Hands” | Doctor Mike | History Teacher Reacts

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Doctor Mikes ‪@DoctorMike‬ shares the massively influential story of Ignaz Semmelweis, who discovered that washing hands could save lives, and why he was ultimately murdered for it. Mr. Terry gets to talk about medical history, the industrial revolution, the plague, and more!
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[@MrTerry]

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[@MrTerry]

Employees are REQUIRED to wash their hands before returning to work.

[@ParkerJones-so2cy]

True! Even if you’re a nurse/doctor, teacher, restaurant staff, or in general it’s just sanitary. When I was at a Wendy’s they had a sign up saying ‘Employees wash your hands before getting back to work’. Love your videos. I just started watching you. I was pretty ok with History but when you explain things I’m genuinely interested in what you say!

[@TheIrishBub]

And you're supposed to lather soap for about 20 seconds. It's crazy how many people I work with don't even lather for 3 seconds.

[@artsysabs]

As someone who works in the food industry, I wash my hands *all* the time. But I know there’s people who don’t and it makes me sad 😭 I see co-workers sneeze and wipe their nose *with their gloves on* and sometimes won’t even change gloves and usually don’t wash after.

[@Lukas_the_Libra]

You should watch his video on crazy injuries that people survived

[@francistolsa7793]

True, but in my experience almost no one fallows these "requirements". thanks to other common health measures, very few die per year in the US. your favorite restaurants are safe. But this is not because of the "employees must wash hands" signs.

[@Someguyhere111]

Still waiting for "wash your hands" to fully catch on. I love seeing people at work leave the bathroom without even approaching the sink.

[@anathardayaldar]

It's their way of "sticking it to da man".

[@artsysabs]

It’s not even just at work. In general, anytime I see someone use the bathroom and just walk out I’m like ???? 😭

[@8Phoenix8]

Facts it’s scary. And those same people go back to their spouses with dirty hands :o

[@dorahuszar9880]

Here in Hungary we call him the Savior of Mothers (Anyák megmentője). It's very sad and unfair what happened to him, but his legacy is undeniable.

[@InkanSpider]

From what I've read about him, only a few people believed him about his hand-washing method. The students and doctors HATED the constant washing, and he constantly had to fight people taking shortcuts and not using his methods correctly. He made a lot of people hate him, especially those that previously liked him. Vsauce2 has a longer and more detailed video about Semmelweiz, really recommend it!

[@MS-io6kl]

Semmelweis' death was quite a bit more brutal than Dr. Mike lets on. An examination of Semmelweis' body in 1963 discovered multiple fractures on his hands, arms and left chest side. He didn't die from just one infected wound.

[@tabathacarruthers5122]

He was beat to death?!

[@Shoomer1988]

This reminds me of the infamous 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak in London. At the time cholera was thought to be airborne but after 127 people died around Broad Street in 3 days a physician named John Snow realised that airborne transmission made no sense. The outbreak was traced to a contaminated water pump and change not only the understanding of the disease but also to water supply policy in the city. You can see a replica of the pump at the site and there's a pub named after Snow.

[@TherealDanielleNelson]

YES!

[@anyathepanther7977]

The fact that his Methode worked, less woman died and yet they still refused to believe him makes me angry! Washing your hands seems like such a normal thing today.

[@omegamanrad]

(Shivers) dirty hands during cooking or health work 🤢

[@metroidhunter965]

That’s how they figure Typhoid Mary was so lethal. Biographics did a biography on her. Fascinating stuff.

[@TherealDanielleNelson]

@@metroidhunter965 The thing with her though was she was an asymptomatic typhoid carrier. She would have been fine if she just stayed out of the kitchens, but she didn't.

[@YesTodaySatan69]

I had explain to a 20 year old man that he had to be clean while working in a kitchen a few weeks ago. We work in a middle school cafeteria, we work with food that kids eat and he was so flippant about it. I mean, he also peed on the kitchen staff's bathroom floor and just expected someone else to clean it, so we just kind of hope he isn't coming back.😊

[@Idontknowyou05]

To give an example on why it was so weird to them Imagine telling a person, there were COUNTLESS tiny unseeable living creatures were EVERYWHERE, especially in place like bodies. And these tiny creatures were infecting us, and our blood, skin, etc all have these creatures who've never heard about microscope or micro organisms Etc etc It'd be really weird lol

[@artsysabs]

Appreciate the Doctor Mike reactions Ever since Covid I wash my hands way more and sanitize every time I get into my car after leaving a public place. Especially now being pregnant for the first time, I’m trying to be extra careful and stay away from anyone who seems sick 😢

[@tabathacarruthers5122]

The fact that they performed autopsies in the open is disgusting and disturbing.

[@Firemedic3017]

2:30 no Mr. Terry they were both labor and delivery wards. It was just that the midwives had an actual grasp on what was happening. The doctors who saw everything in black-and-white had a fatality rate of about 35 to 40%. The midwives who knew what to do their fatality rate was about 2 to 5%. This new doctor wanted to introduce the technique of simply washing your hands between patients something the midwives did, but the doctors did not. That’s what led to the dramatic difference between the two. I first caught this story on one of Mr. Ballin‘s podcasts. The medical mystery one. If you’re interested, you might enjoy reacting to some of his videos. Also, he is now civilian, but he spent a few years with the Navy Seals.

[@tylersees6665]

We need more doctor Mike reactions

[@Shaosprojects]

Terry’s face of pure disgust really goes to show how far medicine has gone

[@karlgrimm3027]

Extra History did a video about John Snow and how he stopped a cholera outbreak by making people use a different water source.

[@chivebutter8794]

When I get into town for work I use a supermarket WC, and if I ever see anyone "wash" their hands they just wet their hands then wiggle them at the air dryer. It's disgusting and why I always recommend washing fruits and vegetables as well as to have sanitiser with you wherever possible

[@juliakovacs4885]

A Semmelweis movie actually came out on Netflix this year. They upped the drama and altered some details to make for a better movie plot though, so I'd only give it a 6/10 for historical accuracy. And the movie ends with Ignaz leaving Vienna, his later life and death are not covered

[@Crazehness]

Mr. Terry and Dr. Mike. Hell yeah

[@invadertifxiii]

I love Dr Mike channel from a doctors perspective

[@PackerBacker23]

So excited for you and GROSSI to do a history stream! Go Pack Go!

[@metroidhunter965]

Mr Terry, have you watched the Joe Rogan episode with Lindsey Fitzharris? She’s a doctor of historical medicine and her talking about Dr Listerine and the various medical tools like the clockwork saw (basically a springloaded circular saw), and the surgical procedure that had a 300% mortality rate…

[@alan_li-xn5zy]

About Vienna, it was a place, at least in the 19th and 20th centuries, where extreme conservatism and radical experiments coexisted, in natural sciences, politics, the arts, literature, and much more. It is possible that the conservatism promoted the radical experiments, which further promoted the conservatism. Similarly there are cases of Ludwig Boltzmann and Kurt Godel, who both were rejected by the scientific community in Vienna. Boltzmann eventually committed suicide and Godel had mental breakdowns, though there may have been other contributing causes to those as well.

[@dannygjk]

Dr. Mike would never do that.

[@namepending155]

You should check out the story of Dr. Lister, as in Listerine. Gal talked about on Rogan years ago. It’s related.

[@backpackerraden6268]

If you're up for more of these medical history type videos, I highly highly highly recommend the channel Patrick Kelly. really fantastic work about all sorts of medical history topics

[@jordanwhite8718]

So basically, this guy is the destiny of medicine.

[@manahakume9870]

if your interested in historic medical stuff i'd love to see you react to Parallel World Pharmacy an anime where a pharmacist is reincarnated into a world that is basically pre-industrial revolution Europe with magic, of course its not a one to one in history but theres enough historical references that i think you'd be able to add to it for a reaction :3

[@tabathacarruthers5122]

I love that show!

[@Kastor774]

You should watch Vsauce2's video on this topic

[@DragonGoddess18]

No wonder people didn't live long back then

[@MrTerry]

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[@rgentry9]

Do you have a preference if people watch on youtube or twitch?

[@iwanderkinderen6790]

Please watch record of ragnarok or the comedy video of john wilksbuth running for president

[@biggerdoofus]

I think this video is a little harsh on peoples of the past. Like, it's really hard to intuit most of the breakthroughs in science.

[@mortezashariati5217]

wow im fascinated how can scientists ignore the result of SCIENTIFIC METHODS like bro thats what science is. thats what you DO.

[@jacksoncremean1664]

Here's the funny part, they weren't scientists.

[@MS-io6kl]

The scientific methods were only developed during the 1800s. People like Darwin, Humboldt, Mendel, Pasteur and Semmelweis were the pioneers of the scientific methods. There were earlier examples like Galilei, but they were usually philosophers and physicists. The term itself was only coined at the end of the 19th century, quite some time after Semmelweis was killed.

[@prestigev6131]

They weren’t scientists in the way we think of scientists today. They all had extreme biases that couldn’t be changed by evidence and the scientific method was very recent or still being developed during that time period. Even as recent as the early 1900s, theories like continental drift were laughed out of any kind of serious scientific discussion despite all the evidence for it