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Notice how the Bible says bathing your flesh in running water. What does that mean? It's like taking a shower the water is running and so it would often take place in hospitals a long time ago Is that they would basically have a big tub of water and so doctors and surgeons They would wash their hands in the water, but they're not the only people washing in the same water And so what take place is infections were being passed into patients and you know, it's it's dirty It is a pretty big deal because in hospitals They had an extremely high mortality rate for women during pregnancy because what would take place is that doctors were passing Infections into the women as they're giving birth and many women died the 19th century Ignace Semmelweis is the one who really pushed for saying hey We need to wash our hands under running water and have cleanliness laws and what took place after they actually initiated it a 90% drop in deaths during pregnancy by women delivering