I’m going have to simplify some information as I’m too lazy to write long paragraph
The science revolution occur around 400 years.
Way before Science exist, we used to believe in obsolete medical theory called the Miasma theory
which most people believed that infections were caused by foul odors. Centurys later, the scientific theory called ’Germ theory of disease became
During the Miasama Era, Hand washing washing wasn’t the norm until the 19th century which is the effective way of prevents the spread of many diseases. ”
The guy who discover hand washing effectiveness Ignaz Semmelweis
“Despite various publications of results where hand washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis’s observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. Semmelweis could offer no acceptable scientific explanation for his findings, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it. In 1865, the increasingly outspoken Semmelweis supposedly suffered a nervous breakdown and was treacherously committed to an asylum by his colleague. He died a mere 14 days later, at the age of 47, after being beaten by the guards, from a gangrenous wound on his right hand which might have been caused by the beating. Semmelweis’s practice earned widespread acceptance only years after his death, when Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory, and Joseph Lister, acting on the French microbiologist’s research, practised and operated using hygienic methods, with great success.”
Galileo Galilei “father of modern science”