Send us a text Hear the interesting story of the disease that despite being one of the more extensively studied and well-understood diseases in human history, has been a public health problem from antiquity until today. Learn the details of an illness that while being almost completely treatable for decades still plagues us today and has given rise to Sir William Osler's well-known saying: "The physician who knows syphilis knows medicine."
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Send us a text Hear the interesting story of the disease that despite being one of the more extensively studied and well-understood diseases in human history, has been a public health problem from antiquity until today. Learn the details of an illness that while being almost completely treatable for decades still plagues us today and has given rise to Sir William Osler's well-known saying: "The physician who knows syphilis knows medicine."
Episode 1- Middleton Goldsmith and the Birth of Antisepsis
Filth in America
51 minutes
10 months ago
Episode 1- Middleton Goldsmith and the Birth of Antisepsis
Send us a text In the inaugural episode of the Filth in America podcast we discuss the surprising birth of antiseptic treatment of wounds in Nashville, Tennessee during the American civil war. A decade before the germ theory of disease was widely known and years before Joseph Lister's experiments, there is the compelling story of Middleton Goldsmith, a U.S. Army physician who developed the first techniques for wound antisepsis that were both practical and successful.
Filth in America
Send us a text Hear the interesting story of the disease that despite being one of the more extensively studied and well-understood diseases in human history, has been a public health problem from antiquity until today. Learn the details of an illness that while being almost completely treatable for decades still plagues us today and has given rise to Sir William Osler's well-known saying: "The physician who knows syphilis knows medicine."