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To: combjelly who wrote (377270)4/9/2008 4:02:39 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1583965
 
1908. They didn't even know to wash their hands between patients then."

How mis-informed can one person be?

Pasteur's work on germ theory was in the mid-1800s. By 1870, Dr. Lister was mounting his campaign for doctors to wash and to sterilize their instruments. By the turn of the century, it was universal.


Pasteur and Lister were liberals. Their beliefs don't count.