Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
ISBN: 0199212791
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jamesrcole · 2018-10-21 · Original thread
> Western medicine until after 1880 had rejected the benefits of cleanliness - with surgeons taught to operate covered in filth.

If anyone's interested in a good read on this I'd recommend

"Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates" by David Wootton

https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Medicine-Doctors-Doing-Hippocrate...

It's pretty eye-opening.

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