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1. Childbed fever was not, in fact, caused by cadaveric particles.

2. Nobody here disputes aseptic technique.

3. You've misconstrued the point about Semmelweis' commitment. Alzheimers, syphilis, exhaustion: the point is that he was symptomatic, as you yourself just quoted.

I don't think anybody else is reading us at this point.




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