Elena Muñoz Winery. Sterilization unit of the F-M Habana Hospital
FM Podcast 1x06
The ancient Egyptians thought that demons and evil spirits were the cause of infections and that only witchcraft and magic could keep them away.
Was Hippocrates who refuted the idea that diseases were a divine punishment and advocated the irrigation of wounds with wine or boiling water, something that Galen continued to do, who also boiled the instruments with which he cured gladiators.
In 1683 Antonj de Leeuwenhoeck developed the microscope and found some small bugs, compatible with what, two centuries later,Louis Pasteur called microorganisms, establishing a microbial theory as responsible for contracting certain diseases. He began to develop disinfection and sterilization processes that were expanded in 1881 thanks to the German doctor Robert Koch, creator of the first sterilizer with pressureless steam flow.
Why do we do all this review of the history of asepsis? Well, to tell in this new episode of Podcast FM what the great unknown that is sterilization consists of at the Fraternidad-Muprespa Havana Hospital.
