So this dude, [Ignaz Semmelweis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis) discovered that hand washing **seriously** improved outcomes and wrote a book on it back in 1861.
The medical community ridiculed him and rejected his finding causing him to have a nervous breakdown and they *had him commited to an asylum!!*
The guards there beat him and he died two weeks later from an infection that unironicly could have been prevented with hand washing.
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