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Ableton on Air has been seen in the following publications, Park Chester Times, WWW, this is the Bronx.com, New York Power Online Newspaper, Muslim Community Report, www.h.com, and the Montpelier Bridge. Ableton on Air is part of the following organizations, the National Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England Chapter, and the Society of Professional Journalists. Welcome to this edition of Ableton on Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns and achievements of the differently abled. I'm your host, Lauren Seiler. I'm Lauren Seiler. And on this television program today, we are going to be focusing on the fathers of disease and sanitation. And with that, we would like to say welcome to this edition of Ableton on Air, and thank you to our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health and Green Mountain Support Services and many others, including the Association for the Blind and Vermont, Higher Ability Vermont, and many, many, many others. So let's get started. Today, we are focusing on the fathers of disease and sanitation. Due to the fact that we are still in COVID and COVID-19, hand-washing is extremely important in terms of that. And today, we will learn about Joseph Lister, who Listerine is named after, as well as Ignace Philip, Simon Weiss. And with this show, we would like to say special thanks to Dr. Alan Wecker of Haifa Israel and the University of Haifa Israel in the field of computer science. We would like to say special thanks to Dr. Alan Wecker for this idea, for this topic. Ignace Philip Simon Weiss is a Hungarian physician and scientist known for early pioneer of antiseptic procedure, described as the savior of mothers and also one of the fathers of disease and sanitation. Simon Weiss, spelled S-E-M-M-E-L-W-E-I-S, discovered the incidence of perpetual fever and known as child bed fever. And basically, he started one of the disinfection parts through the obstetrical clinics. And he started with the chlorinated Lyme solutions in 1847 while working in Vienna's General Hospital's first exceptional clinic where doctors had three times the mortality rate of midwives and wards. He published a book called, of his findings in etiology concept and phallaxis and child bed fever. Despite the various publications of results where hand washing was reduced mortality, that reduced mortality below 1%, Simon Weiss observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas that were rejected by the medical community. He no longer was in acceptance of the scientific explanation for his findings and some doctors were offended by the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it. In 1865, he increasingly outspoken, Simon Weiss supposedly suffered from a nervous breakdown and he was committed to an asylum by his colleagues. In an asylum, he was beaten by the guards. He died 14 days later of a gangrene wound on the right hand that could have been caused by the beating. Simon Weiss practice earned widespread acceptance only years after his death. When Louis Pasteur confirmed germ theory and Joseph Lister, again, Joseph Lister, we will show a picture. He named Listerine after him. Yes, acting on the French microbiologist research and practice and operating using hygienic methods was great success. Anything you want to say in reference to that? Yeah, we need to... And also according to Florence Nightingale, when Florence Nightingale went in to see how hospitals were operating, she was kind of taken back by how dirty at the time hospitals were. Simon Weiss practice... Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, family and early life of Ignace Simon Weiss. Again, his name is spelled I-G-N-A-Z, Simon Weiss. S-E-M-M-E-L-W-E-I-S. He was born on the 1st of July, 1818 in Tauban, in the Tauban neighborhood of Buda, which is now Budapest, hungry today. The kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire. He was the fifth child out of ten. And the prosperous... He came from a prosperous, grocery family. Joseph Simon Weiss and Therese Muller. He was of German ancestry. His father was ethnic German stem. He was the stem of Hezienland, which is a German term for the historical western Hungary. Born in Timorsten, a kingdom of Hungary, and his mother was an ethnic German from Buda, which is part of Budapest. Ignace began studying law at the University of Vienna and in the autumn of 1837, the following year, for reasons that were no longer known, he switched to medicine. He was awarded a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1844 and later failing to obtain an appointment in the Clinic of Internal Medicine, Simon Weiss decided to specialize in obstetrics. His teachers included Carl von Rosinski and Joseph Skoda and Ferdinand de Herbra. Now, going down here, by the way, you can find this information about Simon Weiss. Again, his name is spelled S-E-M-M-E-L-W-E-I-S. You can find all this information at www.wikipedia.org. That's W-I-K-I-P-E-D-I-A.org forward slash Ignace Simon Weiss. What? Okay, he was Hungarian. So he was Hungarian and all of that. So let me get to more of his life down here. Now, what's really important, the response by the medical community, reaction to Simon Weiss. Simon Weiss's views were much more favorably received in the United Kingdom. On the continent, which is more often cited than understood. The British constantly regarded Simon Weiss as having supported the theory of contagion or being contagious. A typical example was W. Tyler Smith who claimed that Simon Weiss made out very conclusively that mygasms derived from the dissecting room will excite the diseases. Basically, they talked about hand washing and how important it was and so on and so forth. Beginning in 1861, Simon Weiss suffered from various nervous complaints. He suffered from severe depression and became absent-minded. He turned every conversation to the topic of childbed fever. After a number of unfavorable foreign reviews, in the 1861 book, Simon Weiss last out at his critics in a series of open letters that were addressed to various prominent European obstetricians including Spath, Scarzoni, and Seibold. To all obstetricians, they were full of bitterness, deception, and fury and were highly polemical and very offensive. That oftentimes denounced his critics and he was denounced. His critics said that he was an irresponsible murderer or other words that they used. In mid-1865, his public behavior became exasperating and embarrassing to his associates. He often began to drink immoderately and spent progressively more time away from his family, sometimes in the company of a prostitute which really has nothing to do with the show but that was kind of his private life. In 1865, other things were written by Simon Weiss to a mental institution. They were trying to commit him to a mental institution. His legacy. Simon Weiss advised chlorine washing that was probably more influential than he realized. Many doctors, particularly in Germany, appeared as quite willing to experiment with the practical hand-washing measures that he proposed. Although virtually everyone rejected the basic groundbreaking theological innovation. Now, getting back to Pastor, we spoke about him in a last show before this. So Louis Pasteur dealt with germ theory and pasteurization. Louis Pasteur discovered germ theory in 1861. During his experiments in the 1860s, French chemist Louis Pasteur developed modern germ theory. He proved that food spoiled because of contamination by invisible bacteria, not because of spontaneous generation. Pasteur stipulated that bacteria caused infection and disease. So we can go into, we have a couple of minutes. Go ahead, anything you want to say? I don't think so. All right. So for more information on Louis Pasteur and his work, you can go to www.ourstory.jnj, which stands for Johnson and Johnson.com, forward slash pastor discovers germ theory. Again, www.ourstoryjnj.com, for another forward slash, Louis Pasteur discovers germ theory. This comes from the Johnson and Johnson website. Timeline, world events. Louis Pasteur, Pasteur spelled P-A-S-T-E-U-R, discovers germ theory, 1861. During his experiments in the 1860s, French chemist Louis Pasteur developed a modern germ theory. He proved that food spoilage because of contamination and by invisible bacteria did not because of, sorry, invisible bacteria, not because of spontaneous generation. Pasteur stipulated that bacteria caused infection and disease. Before Pasteur's discovery, Frenchists believed that living matter like bugs and disease were born from non-living organisms like dust or dirt. Through germ theory, it was initialized, controversial, and it revolutionized public health. Pasteur's experiments inspired by Joseph Lister developed an antiseptic theory. So we can go into Joseph Lister and we will show a picture of him, Joseph Lister. I got it. Joseph Lister, antiseptic medicine. Joseph Lister, British surgeon and medical scientist. Joseph Lister, in full, Joseph Lister, Baron Lister of Lyme Regis, 1883 to 1897. He died young. Well, actually, wait a second. Joseph Lister, Bynanette, also born 1827. He was a physicist and micro-sipsist, was elected by the Royal Society for his discovery in a modern, distorting microscope. While both of his parents took an active part in Lister's education, his father instructed him in natural history and the use of a microscope. Lister received former schooling in two Quaker institutions, which laid far more emphasis on the natural history and science. And so did other schools. He became interested in comparative anatomy before his 16th birthday and decided upon a surgical career. After taking an arts course at University College in London, he enrolled in the Faculty of Medical Science. In 1848, a brilliant student graduated with a bachelor of medicine and honors in 1852. He also, three years later, got a professorship of surgery in Glasgow, which is pretty impressive. So his work in antisepsis. Lister began experiments with antisepsis. Most of his early published work had dealt with the micro, the, sorry, the mechanism of coagulation of the blood and the role of blood vessels in first stages of inflammation. And it was connected to the healing of wounds. Lister had already tried out methods to encourage clean healing and form theories to account for the prevalence of sepsis. Okay, but by the way, Simon Weiss died from sepsis, for those that want to know that. So getting to here, this also comes from encyclopedia Britannica, Joseph Lister and Baron Lister of Lyme Regis. He was called two things. And for more information on that, you can go to www.Britannica.com forward slash order of merit, if you want to find out more of that. But before we end, we would like to say please, we are still in coronavirus and today's show is basically a history of sanitation and sanitation and taking care of one's cleanliness, which is extremely important. For more information on today's program or any other program in reference to medical or medical information that Abel Denon Air provides, you can go to www.Abel.orgmedia.net, that is www.ORCAmedia.net. We are not doctors, we are not social workers, we are journalists and advocates that are giving information. So if you or anyone that you know needs information in reference to anything medical on this show, you can go to the website that we had stated or if you need more professional help, please go to your doctor and or social worker or anybody that you see in reference to medical information. Again, thank you to our sponsors Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services and many others, including the Association of the Blind Vermont and the Division for the Blind Vermont and also Higher Ability Vermont. I'm Lauren Seiler. I'm Ari Seiler. See you next time on the next edition of Abel Denon Air. Major sponsors for Abel Denon Air include Green Mountain Support Services, empowering people with disabilities to live home in the community. Washington County Mental Health, where hope and support come together. 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