Read the extract from the diary and the short summary of the doctor’s findings and choose the best answer to the question "What was his idea?"

• Having students clean themselves after dissections should lead to a decrease of puerperal fever.
• Students should not take part in dissections because they may cut themselves.
• Students smell because they do not clean themselves after a dissection.
• Students want to show that they are industrious, which makes them careless when they examine the women.