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It's pronounced Thomas K'n-eeley.
sadly history has proven Socrates to be correct time and time again.
Rumkowski was a fucking traitor, and a monster bottom line, full stop. There is literally NO gray area there for him to even remotely be considered redeemable, and frankly anyone arguing the “but the circumstance” bullshit needs to have their revisionist motives questioned.
Semmelweis should be up there.
He was a doctor at the Vienna hospital, which had the largest maternity ward in the world. It was unique in that they had two wards, one mostly run by doctors and medical students, the other run by midwives and student midwives. The patients were admitted to each clinic on different days – for example, if you went to give birth on Monday you would go to the doctors clinic, Tuesdays midwives, Wednesday doctors. An average of 10% of mothers died in the doctors clinic, 4% in the midwives clinic. To the point that expecting mothers would beg not to be sent to the doctors. The largest cause of death was puerperal fever (which we would call infection)
He set out to discover the cause of the disparity in deaths and the cause of puerperal fever. He ruled out a wide array of factors, from bad air, geographical location, etc. He ended up linking it to a number of factors. Firstly, the medical clinic had all students partake in dissections of dead women first thing every morning followed by immediately going to the maternity ward and doing mandatory vaginal exams without washing their hands or tools. He eliminated the mandatory exams, and instituted a regime of hand washing. The month before he put those steps in action, there was an 18% mortality rate. The first month in place, that dropped down to 2%, and then 1% the month after. A 90% reduction in deaths.
He was strongly disliked by other doctors of the time who were offended by the idea of handwashing and the idea that their practices were causing deaths among other things. He was eventually forced out of the hospital because of how reviled he was by the medical community.
He went on to work at a small hospital in Budapest in an unpaid position. That hospital had major issues with children dying of fever. He instituted handwashing and virtually eliminated childhood fever, preventing the majority of childhood deaths there.
In continental europe he was dismissed as a quack. Nobody took any of his reasearch seriously and hand washing was not enacted in most hostpitals. (His work did have some positive reception in the UK, where his procedures were implemented). He took every opportunity to talk about handwashing, however, he had an abrasive personality and essentially accused other doctors of murder for their unwillingness to change their practices. He was shunned completely. His wife believed he was losing his mind. He ranted and raved about handwashing. Another doctor forcibly had him placed in an insane asylum, he obviously refused and the guards beat him until he couldn't resist. He died within 2 weeks from infection on account of that beating. Had the insane asylum used his practices he probably would have survived.
Very few people attended his funeral. His reputation was in tatters. It was only many years after his death, when Pasteur developed germ theory did the medical community start taking his research seriously (Semmelweis wasn't able to give a good reason "why" handwashing saved lives, which was part of why it was discounted). He was vindicated and had a massive influence on medicine, but only after dying alone in an insane asylum
The importance of being Ernest was very good
Steve Boo Skemi
French Army – We have a spy, and it must be that guy
Do you have any evidence?
FA – Yes, we have this letter
But that's not his hand writing
FA – Ah yes, but would a spy write in his own hand writing while spying?
But how do you know its him then?
FA – Because he's Jewish
Literally that was the French armys case
such an awesome very good narrator yea
2:48 and as the world shows he is not wrong, most people don’t know there elbow from there ass
In the immortal words of this dude Jimmy i know,"hey man pass the blunt". Hes smarter than most.