THG Podcast: Hygiene and History

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2 ай бұрын

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On today’s episode the History Guy tells two stories of hygiene history. First he talks about the long history of soap, and then he tells the story of Ignaz Semmelweiss, one of the first doctors to argue that doctors should wash their hands to prevent spreading disease.
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@LBGirl1988 2 ай бұрын

My three times great grandfather used the study of handwashing to reduce death and infection as his dissertation at the university of South Carolina Medical School ( named differently then).

@lbarnhill5493 2 ай бұрын

Gap sense: cleaning eating utensils but not surgical instruments. 🤔

@constipatedinsincity4424 2 ай бұрын

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally!

@vanroeling2930 2 ай бұрын

THG cleans up yet again with this podcast!

@jonthinks6238 2 ай бұрын

I enjoy the information, put prefer to see some videos/pictures during the post.

@orbyfan 2 ай бұрын

You can find them on the original videos.

@RottnRobbie Ай бұрын

@orbyfan Wonderful... Now if only there were links, titles, dates, or _any_ information to point us to those original videos. Instead, I guess we're supposed to just scroll through the entire back catalogue in hopes of stumbling on them? 🤷‍♂️

@orbyfan Ай бұрын

@@RottnRobbie The channel has a search function. Click on the magnifying glass, and enter your search term.

@RottnRobbie Ай бұрын

@orbyfan Uh, nope. (At least not on the Android app). When I go to the channel home, using the magifying glass icon to search for 'soap' gives me lots and lots of Non-History Guy channel results for soap brands. But regardless, the point is that the podcast editor knows what videos these are pulled from, but chooses not to share that info with the audience.

@MrJamesjustin 2 ай бұрын

Great stuff fellas. Thankyou.

@bcase5328 2 ай бұрын

Idea for a like discovery: People using buttons/toggles; people making buttons.

@DavidFMayerPhD 2 ай бұрын

Modern detergents are far more effective than alkali soaps. I consider the word "soap" to INCLUDE detergents. Bathing was very difficult because of the need to heat water without modern plumbing. Also, the lack of chlorine made public bath houses centers of contagion.

@evensgrey 2 ай бұрын

A very common type of detergent are alkali salts of sulfionic acids. These are similar to fatty acids but have an acid group based on sulfur instead of carbon (and has three oxygen atoms making a total of five equivalent bonds to the sulfur atom, while a carboxylic acid used in soap will have two oxygen atoms making a total of three equivalent bonds with the carbon atom).

@user-ek8gs4ij4r 2 ай бұрын

There's no known scientific evidence...but...but...it works!

@evensgrey 2 ай бұрын

There's been another change in medicine that would have resulted in a different acceptance of handwashing to prevent the transmission of disease. Mo den medicine tries to use the standard of showing that something does work, without regard to having to examine why it works. This is the difference between evidence-based medicine, which only concerns itself with the treatment that produces the best outcome, and science-based medicine, which wants to know why something works before using it.