A doctor discovered that washing hands saves lives – but nobody wanted to believe him
In the mid-19th century, the Viennese obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis recognized that many fatal postpartum infections in women were caused by ...
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Fear of Tomatoes in the 16th Century: How They Became Deadly on the Plates of the Rich
For a 16th-century English nobleman, eating tomatoes was tantamount to a death sentence. This is because the acidity of the tomato released toxic...
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