WedgeSocial on Nostr: “Typhoid and scarlet fever, diphtheria, tuberculosis and various diarrheal diseases ...

“Typhoid and scarlet fever, diphtheria, tuberculosis and various diarrheal diseases were all capable of being transmitted through the consumption of milk. But it seems that until 1886, when von Soxhlet made his suggestion, nobody thought of pasteurizing milk on a large scale. And what a difference pasteurization made! In 1891, one in every four infants in New York City died, many from drinking tainted milk. “

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-science-science-everywhere-you-asked/who-first-suggested-milk-be-pasteurized-make-it-safer-consumption