“If medical practitioners wanted to save lives,” said Baxter, “instead of making money out of them, they would unite to prevent diseases, not work separately to cure them. The cause of most illness has been known since at least the sixth century before Christ, when the Greeks made a goddess of Hygiene.
Makes me think of the Jewish diaspora in England during the Black Plague due to their cleanliness and hygiene practices surrounding religious rituals, ie hand washing.
