Imagine a time when doctors didn't was their hands between patients. Its hard to comprehend now but during the mid 1800's it was the norm. It would be Doctor Ignaz Semmelweis who would conclude that hand washing would prevent death. The personal torture he would go through to the find the solution wasn't close to the torture he would receive from his peers. His findings were shunned by the medical field and Iganz would end up in a mental institution.