Filth Parties (originally aired September 23, 2020)

Constant Wonder - Radio Archive, Episode 763

Nov 27, 2020 8:00 pm
52:46 mins

Alan M. Kraut explains how one doctor deliberately ingested disease to prove its origin. Anthony Valerio explains that doctors began washing their hands thanks to young Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.

Episode Segments

Episode Segments

Dr. Joseph Goldberger and the Fight Against Pellagra

32 MINS

Alan M. Kraut explains how one doctor deliberately ingested disease to prove its origin.

How a Hungarian Physician Saved Women from Childbed Fever and Became the ‘Savior of Mothers’

21 MINS

Anthony Valerio explains that doctors began washing their hands thanks to young Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.