Well he got a mouthwash named after him, there’s always that
And an entire hospital in Stevenage, England.
And a crap 80’s pop band.
And a total smeghead.
And an avid fan of categorizing things in an ordered format.
That took me a minute to get.
Also the bacterial genus known as listeria.
I was going to say, I saw the name “Lister” and wondered if there was any connection to “Listerine”.
Listerine was actually developed to disenfect hospital equipment. By Lister.
Funny how Semmelweis got similarly shitty treatment for the same idea. Though he wasn’t so much as laughed at as much as beaten to death in a psych ward.
Didn’t know at all about Semmelweis. Very interesting… and sad.
He really deserved better. Societal momentum is tough to go against, and can easily beat one down… oftentimes literally.
He was much earlier though and germ theory didn’t exist yet, so he couldn’t explain why washing your hands would work. It didn’t make any sense based on the medical ideas of the time, so people saw his recommendation to wash hands as a superstition. Then he went insane as doctors continued to not wash their hands, resulting in many mothers dying from infections after birth. At least with Lister, he could explain his rationale via germ theory.
Too educational for this channel! Mildly interesting perhaps?
Yeah, how is this a shitpost?
It’s cause the guy was a dick about it… He was correct, but the way he communicated it to the medical community was rude which is why it wasn’t adopted earlier.
Maybe he was, but that’s often just an excuse given by those who don’t want it hear.
Look at those long sideburn hairs
They are called mutton chops. Also, seen on Lemmy Kilmister.
Ur called mutton chops
Ur face is mutton chops
u r
Wasnt the same caption just posted with Semmelweis as the person in the picture?
It was a different caption, but the same format and general idea (Semmelweis said that doctors should wash their hands but didn’t say anything about disinfection of tools).
Listerine
Whomever died last, probably.
