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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Semmelweiss. His radical idea of "surgeons ought to wash their hands" saw him widely ridiculed and reduced to poverty, and he died in an institution.

[–] Lizardking27 1 points 1 week ago

Semmelweis didn't discover microbes. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first observed microbes in feces using the first microscope (the Leeuvenhoek microscope), which he also invented.

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