Cathy

“sign on the wall just outside the entrance to the First Division, where antiseptic-solution-filled basins had been placed on two tables: “ALLE ARTZE MÜSSEN IHRE HANDE MIT CHLORKALK WASSEN” (“All medical practitioners must wash hands with chlorine.”) Hand brushes for scrubbing and towels were placed next to the basins. Ignác stationed himself there, arms folded over his chest, awaiting the arrival of the students from the morgue.”
― Andrew Schafer, Unclean Hands

“thoroughly scrubbing them with the most powerful disinfectant solution available and for as long as it took to expunge all traces of the smell of cadavers. He now set about single-mindedly researching what would be the most effective antiseptic.38”
― Andrew Schafer, Unclean Hands

“As for the disease that was the mission of his lifework, its victims continued to fester and die in great numbers because of the stubborn ignorance of the medical establishment throughout most of the world for the next two decades. But then the tide turned as a more enlightened generation of physicians assumed control, so that by the 1890s the mortality rates in hospitals in Europe and the United States had declined to levels seen with home deliveries.”
― Andrew Schafer, Unclean Hands

“At the same time, all around him, he saw obstinate, arrogant men with the power to do the right things yet lacking the conscience to do so.”
― Andrew Schafer, Unclean Hands