He was admitted to an asylum where the guards beat him, leaving him with broken bones and a gangrenous foot. Ignaz Semmelweis died in 1865, most likely of sepsis caused by the injuries; consumed, possibly, by germs—the very “material” substance that he had tried to identify as a cause of infections.
I need to make a list of people who challenge the consensus and then gets destroyed for it. Semmelwise is one, Everett clearly another. Copernicus also
