Handwashing

Victorian misconceptions about miasma, from the 1840s

Tragical death of a doctor, caused by childbed fever (tipical desease for mothers during birth)

Semmelweis' hypothesis about infections

Semmelweis' experiment with handwashing was successful

People didn't take his advice seriously enough (they resisted instead)

Semmelweis had a unfortunate and tragic breakdown

Natural diseasaes brought the neccessarity for handwahsing, people started to realize and acknowledge its importance

First tuberculosis and several others then HIV virus had a positive influence on general hygene

Althoug even Pre-COVID-19 has hand hygene still not reached the needed high level.

The wrtiter of the article hopes that the current epidemy (COVID-19) will force us to develope our hygene to a greater level