Comment by Retric

As an idea sure, but not in practice.

Homeopathy was created in 1796, and we still haven’t gotten rid of it.

Meanwhile 65 years later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

The maternal mortality rate dropped from 18% to less than 2%, and he published a book of his findings, Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, in 1861.