Filth in America
Stories of the interesting history of public health in America
Filth in America
Episode 1- Middleton Goldsmith and the Birth of Antisepsis
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Brandon
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In the inaugural episode of the Filth in America podcast we discuss the surprising birth of antiseptic treatment of wounds in Nashville, Tennessee during the American civil war. A decade before the germ theory of disease was widely known and years before Joseph Lister's experiments, there is the compelling story of Middleton Goldsmith, a U.S. Army physician who developed the first techniques for wound antisepsis that were both practical and successful.