Filth Parties (originally aired September 23, 2020)

Filth Parties (originally aired September 23, 2020)Constant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 763

Nov 27, 2020 • 53m

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

Dr. Joseph Goldberger and the Fight Against PellagraNov 27, 202032mAlan M. Kraut explains how one doctor deliberately ingested disease to prove its origin.

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’Nov 27, 202021mAnthony Valerio explains that doctors began washing their hands thanks to young Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.

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