I stand corrected, I had only heard that the doctor was Jewish, which turns out to be wrong.
I stand by my point though, that it isn’t as easy as carrying our knowledge back, it takes a sales pitch too.
Yup. Knowing the truth does little good if you can’t convince others to listen to you.
In defense of those who rejected Semmelweiss, he was a few decades ahead of the revolution that would explain WHY his methods worked.
I’ve always thought it really odd that we’d been looking at bacteria under the microscope for several centuries before they were effectively connected to disease.
“I stand by my point though, that it isn’t as easy as carrying our knowledge back, it takes a sales pitch too.”
Also, one going back should know who the power was. Carefully avoid public credit, and lets popes, kings, etc have credit for your “ideas”. Technology is one thing, but one should know how to avoid the roadblocks of that era too.