> 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 go

> 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-Hippocrates/dp/0199212791 https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Medicine-Doctors-Doing-Hippocrate... It's pretty eye-opening.