Democrats Risk Losing a Generation to Cynical Libertarianism

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143. I have read about him, but forgot his name

It is well known that people had practiced antiseptic policies for centuries before him, but the Medical Community dismissed them as old wives tales. An example of such anti-septic treatment is in Von Steuben's Blue book (the book Von Steuben wrote for George Washington on how the US Army was to fight in the Revolution). The "Blue Book" gets its name from the color of its cover and bindings. It was meant to be taken out in the field, thus was designed to be roughly handled.

In the "Blue Book" Von Steuben addressed the issue of sick soldiers. If one was sick, he went to the Hospital. After he was released, the mattress he laid on was opened up, the straw that had filled the Mattress was burned and the cloth boiled. This was written over 100 years before Pasteur, but it clearly shows they knew soldiers became sick after sleeping in a bed that sick soldiers had slept in, but if the mattress was boiled and the straw boiled, that did not happen.