If I had the honor of being a surgeon… I would not only use absolutely clean instruments, but after having cleaned my hands with the greatest care, I would subject them to a rapid flaming.
— Louis Pasteur Modern

Germ theory, pasteurization

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Lecture on antiseptics

Date / Period

1878

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Strange & Unusual

Source

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2609778/

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