OLD TESTAMENT HAND-WASHING
LAWS SAVES LIVES TO THIS VERY DAY
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Exodus 30:17-18 ~ The Lord said to Moses, “You shall also make a basin of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it, with which Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet... |
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis: [A] (German: [ɪˈɡnaːts ˈzɛml̩vaɪs]; Hungarian: Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp; 1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian physician of ethnic-German ancestry,[2] now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Described as the "saviour of mothers",[2] Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever (also known as "childbed fever") could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics. Semmelweis believed and tested such hand-washing theory because of what Old Testament Laws proscribed, regarding the handling of the diseased or dead humans and animals. Puerperal fever was common in mid-19th-century hospitals and often fatal. Semmelweis proposed the practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions in 1847 while working in Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had three times the mortality of midwives' wards.[3] He published a book of his findings in Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever.
Despite various publications of results where hand washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. Semmelweis could offer no acceptable scientific explanation for his findings, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands. Semmelweis's practice earned widespread acceptance only years after his death, when Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory and Joseph Lister, acting on the French microbiologist's research, practiced and operated, using hygienic methods, with great success.
In 1865, Semmelweis was committed to an asylum, where he died at age 47 of pyaemia, after being beaten by the guards, only 14 days after he was committed.
CONCLUSION:
Long before the medical community discovered hand-washing techniques, God told the children of Israel to wash there hands when they handled dead carcasses, after having sex when fluids were exchanged and after touching the diseased. Why? Because God knew about germs and viruses, long before man discovered such. Thus, we can only conclude that God must be real and the scriptures must be accurate, because they were indeed inspired by an Intelligent Designer!
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Despite various publications of results where hand washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. Semmelweis could offer no acceptable scientific explanation for his findings, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands. Semmelweis's practice earned widespread acceptance only years after his death, when Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory and Joseph Lister, acting on the French microbiologist's research, practiced and operated, using hygienic methods, with great success.
In 1865, Semmelweis was committed to an asylum, where he died at age 47 of pyaemia, after being beaten by the guards, only 14 days after he was committed.
CONCLUSION:
Long before the medical community discovered hand-washing techniques, God told the children of Israel to wash there hands when they handled dead carcasses, after having sex when fluids were exchanged and after touching the diseased. Why? Because God knew about germs and viruses, long before man discovered such. Thus, we can only conclude that God must be real and the scriptures must be accurate, because they were indeed inspired by an Intelligent Designer!
FOR MORE DETAILS CLICK LINKS BELOW:
LINK: https://creation.com/semmelweis
LINK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
