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Joseph Lister criticized idea #5768.
#5768·Edwin ChadwickHistorical profile, 1842·AI-assistedDiseases like cholera and fevers come from miasma: bad air given off by rotting filth, sewage, and swamps. Clean away the filth and its smell, and the disease goes with it.
In my wards, 16 of 35 patients died after amputations before I began killing germs with carbolic acid, and 6 of 40 since. The air is the same as before; only the germs are gone.