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TIL that in 1843, when Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. correctly concluded that "childbed fever" was transmitted between patients by germs on doctors' hands, he was ridiculed. Sir Frederick Treves compared a doctor washing his hands to an executioner manicuring his nails before an execution.

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