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The Soap Bar That Sparked a Scientific Revolution — And the Doctor Who Died for It
You used it this morning. You'll use it again tonight.
But the bar of soap on your sink sparked a scientific revolution, toppled industries, and saved more lives than any medicine in history.
And the man who first proved it worked? He was thrown into an asylum and died there.
In this episode of Hidden History with Aiden Thomas, we trace soap from a 4,800-year-old Babylonian recipe of fat and ash to the Holy War that carried it back to Europe — and to Ignaz Semmelweis, the forgotten doctor whose discovery should have made him a legend.
It wasn't just a cleaning product. It was the invention…
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