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- This is the story of a man whose ideas could have saved a lot of lives and spared countless numbers of women and newborns' feverish and agonizing deaths.
You'll notice I said "could have."
The year was 1846, and our would-be hero was a Hungarian doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis.
Yeah, when you want to beat the shit out of the medical establishment you start your argument with Semmelweis, launch your payload, then finish with the Chamberlen Forceps. That little secret probably cost about 100,000 lives over the 150 years it was secret... because of medical greed. If you really wanna get rollin' you point out that Jonas Salk, not a doctor, gave away the polio vaccine while Paul Offit, very much a doctor, SOLD rotateq.