Aditya Bhambri

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Even in ancient India and Egypt, physicians cleaned their instruments by boiling them. Yet in Lister’s time, surgeons paid little attention to the possibility of contamination by microbes. Surgery was an unfathomably unsanitary practice, as if designed intentionally to defy any historical knowledge of hygiene.
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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