Institutionalized for Clean Hands

This week, the girlies chat about The History of Sanitation! They take a deep dive into the story of Ignaz Semmelweis, and how trying to get people to wash their hands wound him up in an asylum. Digressions include: the hallways of Versailles, the Community Sponges of Rome, the imminent reincarnation of the Wooly Mammoth, and the age old question: do white people know how to wash? SOURCES: 1. How a 19th Century Doctor’s Tried to Get His Peers to Wash Their Hands – Weird History YouTube Video. 2. Keep it clean: The suprising 130-year history of Handwashing – Amy Fleming 2020, Article. 3. What Was Hygiene Like In The Victorian Era? – Weird History YouTube Video 4. What Hygiene was like in Colonial America – Weird History YouTube Video Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices