Penicillin was the most important accidental medical discovery. Thank Alexander Fleming for saving millions of lives!
@leslietonn3181
Жыл бұрын
But I’m allergic
@davea6314
Жыл бұрын
@@leslietonn3181Fortunately, in 2023 there are many other types of antibiotics besides penicillin for your physician to prescribe.
@Atomiicstarr
Жыл бұрын
@@leslietonn3181me too lol
@maries8364
Жыл бұрын
I'm allergic so meh for myself lol
@emmgeevideo
Жыл бұрын
And to think that millions probably think it's a government conspiracy and won't use it.
@grapeshot
Жыл бұрын
We don't make mistakes we just have happy accidents. Said a guy that had some big hair.
@TheOfficialTarynTots
Жыл бұрын
I always loved his happy accidents.
@legitbeans9078
Жыл бұрын
I had a happy accident in my pants.
@weirdshitcoolideas
6 ай бұрын
@@TheOfficialTarynTotsI’m a happy accident
@baronvg
Жыл бұрын
When it comes to accidental life changing discoveries like this, I always find myself wondering two things: what kind of world would we be living in IF we had never made those discoveries, and what world are we missing out on because we HAVEN’T made an accidental discovery.
@dam6075
4 ай бұрын
It's also sad to note that human kind is more adept at creating ways to kill one another than anything else. If we as a species, irrespective of race, religion, national origin, or any other qualifier you can possibly dream up, could unite and work as one toward a common goal of the betterment of all, there would be no limit to what we could achieve.
@malcolmr3
Жыл бұрын
My grandmother ate a spoon of Vaseline every day for her whole life, starting as a child. She claimed that it helped her be “regular” and swore by it. She did live to be in her 90’s and was healthy her whole life.
@jewel65
Жыл бұрын
Eeww! I can't even imagine how horrible that would be!😂😂😂😂
@ingridfong-daley5899
Жыл бұрын
My grandma used it every day as a makeup remover; no matter what other cleansers were invented, it was the one she swore by :) I'm wondering how many other grandmothers there were with time-tested original uses there are!
@zappababe8577
Жыл бұрын
I just bet it made her regular!
@timid_soup
Жыл бұрын
@@ingridfong-daley5899I'm not a grandmother (not even a mother) but I use Vaseline as a makeup remover- it's oil based so it works really well, and it's super cheap compared to actual makeup removers.
@cherryblossoms85
Жыл бұрын
@@ingridfong-daley5899 I've used it to take off mascara and it isn't too bad. I think it's nourishing to your lashes too but I don't remember.
@SuzanneBaruch
Жыл бұрын
You left out a recent accidental medical discovery of a previously unknown part of the human body: the tubarial glands. They're actually a type of salivary gland that's associated with the sinuses. Before the discovery, anatomists had absolutely no idea they were there -- which is crazy considering the number of human dissections there have been.
@Johnmhatheist
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: in Spanish a pap smear is reffered to as a papanicolau. So, now I know where that word comes from.
@Petra44YT
2 ай бұрын
Oh, and in Germany, X-rays are called "Röntgenstrahlen", Röntgen rays. There even is a verb for it, to get an x-ray is called "geröntgt werden".
@jenniferpiniarski8692
Жыл бұрын
Love how there’s a GUY in the bed during the Pap smear clip 🤣
@thebearfootgardener8728
6 ай бұрын
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that
@Petra44YT
2 ай бұрын
Yeah, you have to understand, if his girl just got a Pap smear, he needs to recover from the experience. 🤣
@btetschner
Жыл бұрын
10:48 Warfarin was one of the most common prescription drugs that we dispensed when I was a medication aide. The popular writer Agatha Christie also dispensed medication.
@mtrench2896
Жыл бұрын
Yeah that Pap smear guy could have developed a less painful tool to do it with 🙃😊
@ridureyu
Жыл бұрын
I remember the episode where Fonzie injected people’s hearts with various liquids for his unethical scientific experiments. That show got weird after the waterskiing episode.
@RobotacularRoBob
Жыл бұрын
Anthony Fonzie is the science!
@ArcherSuh4721
Жыл бұрын
This is why nobody talks about what happened to Richie's older brother Chuck. Nasty business that...
@rexsexson5349
Жыл бұрын
Arthur Fonzerelli
@geraldfriend256
Жыл бұрын
And they really jumped the shark when they jumped the shark.
@NASCARFAN93100
Жыл бұрын
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination." John Dewey
@btetschner
Жыл бұрын
0:41 I remember going through intense classes of Anatomy and Physiology one quarter. One of the first topics was learning about the parts of the heart and its blood flow.
@brocknakachi125
7 ай бұрын
Thank you for not having ads. I watch this channel because of that
@ingridfong-daley5899
Жыл бұрын
I guess if you're going to make a medical mistake, a major discovery would be a pleasant surprise to the usual outcome of a malpractice suit.
@hipp_katt
Жыл бұрын
Sildenaphil is still used as a heart medication, and a rather important one. My daughter was on it for her heart defect.
@thomasbeach905
11 ай бұрын
Yes, sildenafil and similar are used to treat pulmonary hypertension, which causes strain on the heart.
@irideaunicorn1620
11 ай бұрын
What kind of heart defect if you don't mind me asking. My one month old was just diagnosed with one
@hipp_katt
11 ай бұрын
@@irideaunicorn1620 the medical term was double outlet right ventricle, with a hypoplastic left ventricle and parallel arteries. In simple terms she basically didn't have a left ventricle and both arteries came out of the right side and they were parallel instead of crossed. She ultimately had a genetic defect that was the cause. What was your little one diagnosed with?
@irideaunicorn1620
10 ай бұрын
@@hipp_katt oh wow... He has pulmonary peripheral stenosis, plus a whole in his heart
@jljordan1
10 ай бұрын
@@irideaunicorn1620the hole in the septum is called a PFO
@tremorsfan
Жыл бұрын
Penicillin is a testament to the power of procrastination.
@anotherlilthing
Жыл бұрын
Weird bit of Vaseline info, ferrets love it, which is fantastic because ferrets can be felled by constipation.
@ArcherSuh4721
Жыл бұрын
Honorable Mention to alchemy. It laid the groundwork for chemistry and created a hell of a lot of things. Not bad for a science with a 100% failure rate.
@lakeozarkrei3767
Жыл бұрын
😳😅
@lionelson7098
Жыл бұрын
People frequently mix up science with technology. In reality, a substantial portion of discoveries, perhaps the majority, follows a technological path of trial and error rather than the traditional framework of observation-hypothesis-thesis-theory-experiment, and so on. Chance, wonder, randomness, and luck play a much larger role than people often realize.
@Taragoola
Жыл бұрын
Pedantic af
@monicacarrilllo
Жыл бұрын
I hate to be that guy but are you guys gonna bring back Timeline? I know its a metric shit ton of work but man I love that series.
@jamiedriscoll9781
Жыл бұрын
No surprise whatsoever that Vaseline derived from Rod Wax. 😅... By the way...Julien Lennon as a child drew a picture and showed his dad, John. "What is it?" It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds. He liked that sentence so much he wrote the song.
@btetschner
Жыл бұрын
A+ video! Fascinating video! Very grateful that we now have those medical advances!
@Shatterverse
Жыл бұрын
As a kid I ended up once with one of those toys - a submarine or something - where you put two tablets inside and it goes up and down in the water. Like a baking powder sub, but with two different chemicals. I later was fooling around with them and figured out that whatever it is specifically that they make, the black sidewalk ants loved it, but didn't long survive their buffet.
@C.4o8
Жыл бұрын
I live your side comments! Always make me laugh! Thank you weird history ❤
@thomasbeach905
11 ай бұрын
Vaseline is commonly used to cover sutured lacerations instead of bacitracin as it is equally effective, cheaper, and causes fewer allergic reactions.
@vickielawson3114
5 ай бұрын
I believe sildenafil was initially used to treat angina; the lower blood pressure helped facilitate that.
@JAlucard77
Жыл бұрын
I LOVED THE LSD DISCOVERY AND HOW THE DOCTOR EXPLAINED IT. 😂😂😂😂
@Dr_Do-Little
Жыл бұрын
Those were just excerpt. Like a good researcher. He noted all his experience in details.
@justayoutuber1906
Жыл бұрын
What happens if a lawyer takes Viagra? He gets a stiff neck.
@vickielawson3114
5 ай бұрын
Can’t believe you didn’t mention the involvement of the moldy orange in the development of penicillin.
@koalasez1200
5 ай бұрын
Great narration! Totally enjoy this channel 🙂
@mikitz
Жыл бұрын
Don't know so much about the other languages, but at least in Finnish we call the x-ray the Röntgen ray (also Röntgen radiation and the Röntgen device). It's probably the same in German.
@ellairelune
Жыл бұрын
Yes, it's the same in German. Cool to know you call it the same in Finnish!
@vintageretro83
Жыл бұрын
The visuals that are being showed are more akin to the visuals one would have tripping off of DMT.
@GotTheBestLigma
Жыл бұрын
Let's hear it for ol Hoffman! I really love your discovery!❤️
@vickielawson3114
5 ай бұрын
I was pretty pleased with it.
@mattpaul5441
Жыл бұрын
I got a pacemaker at the age of 26. Good times
@justayoutuber1906
Жыл бұрын
Pace yourself
@YngvarTheStag
Жыл бұрын
Sildenafil is commonly used in the veterinary field to treat high blood pressure.
@CwL-1984
Жыл бұрын
Even a blind hog will find an acorn.
@NewMessage
Жыл бұрын
Gotta say... finding out how a PAP smear was 'accidentally discovered' peaked my interest. Wasn't as fun as I hoped.
@andrewweaver2517
Жыл бұрын
The Voice sounds classier than ever. We ❤ The Voice!
@kendriahglenn9806
7 ай бұрын
And here I was lathering my feet up with Vaseline right before it's listed as 1 😂
@sallykohorst8803
Жыл бұрын
Hey what an interesting subject. Thanks for sharing.
@auntvesuvi3872
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this! ⚕ #WeirdHistory #MedicalHistory #MedicalInventions #MedicalDiscoveries
@susiesweet8003
Жыл бұрын
Minoxidil was created as a hypertension medication. Instead, it was found to grow hair & it really works. I've been using it for years. Women suffer from hair thinning after menopause.
@KatMcKiv
Жыл бұрын
I'm 35 years old and never in my life had I heard that there was a sandwich involved anywhere in the penicillin story lol
@bekkatheman
6 ай бұрын
Thank you mister cookies for indirectly inventing my neurostimulator.
@btetschner
Жыл бұрын
5:37 I remember those Petri dishes that we used for Microbiology, they would often be in stacks on the lab tables.
@glennso47
Жыл бұрын
I’ve made mistakes with unexpected downsides. Does that count.
@chelseythompson5167
Жыл бұрын
So Cheseborough technically didn’t invent Vaseline. The farmers did.
@Punchable-Face
Жыл бұрын
Rather, be lucky🍀... than good😏😁
@michelledesgroseilliers2956
9 ай бұрын
Enjoy listening to you and enjoy this channel! Thank you for all awesome information!! 😊
@edvaira6891
Жыл бұрын
Vaccines took their name from COWPOX…the word for “cow” in Latin is VACA…Thus “Vacaunos” (Latin and Spanish word for vaccines) was coined to represent not just the Vaccine made from Cowpox, but all of them
@btetschner
7 ай бұрын
That Worcestershire Sauce is very intense and has a lot of spices...I would imagine it could make an excellent drink with the right concoction!
@jenniferanderson7304
Ай бұрын
You just rediscovered the Bloody Mary
@zackwhite639
Жыл бұрын
I was blown away whenever they put a mechanical heart valve and two pigs valves. They also put a few coils in
@zackwhite639
Жыл бұрын
Plus I'm on Coumadin
@jackiegillyard758
Жыл бұрын
Pap smear, very necessary, but so uncomfortable.
@Teddy-mj9wd
6 ай бұрын
Thank You Albert Hoffman and Jerry Garcia
@btetschner
Жыл бұрын
0:01 When I was acquiring a Health Sciences Associate Degree at Southeast Community College (in Nebraska), my classes and experiences are very relevant to this video.
@michaelgallagher3640
Жыл бұрын
Thx Mason, your Oops saved my life.
@Carepedoit
Жыл бұрын
This one more than anything, I want the soundtrack for!
@michaelmcdonnell5998
Жыл бұрын
We don't make mistakes we have happy little accidents😂
@christopherfain8736
5 ай бұрын
you could say Greatbatch saved my life this week when I received an implant combo of pacemaker and defibrillator to stop sudden cardiac death.
@roberthofmann8403
Жыл бұрын
As far as I know, I have no relation to Albert Hofmann.
@btetschner
Жыл бұрын
That is an unusual spelling of Hofmann...might be a distant cousin of yours?
@vickielawson3114
5 ай бұрын
8:16 - It wasn’t Hofmann’s 20th preparation, it was the 25th, hence the original name LSD-25. Duh.
@WilliamHaisch
Жыл бұрын
“Doctor? No. The guy that greases my pump jacks says I should put this on my cuts and sores.”
@wangtoriojackson4315
Жыл бұрын
Did they really censor "balls"?
@btetschner
Жыл бұрын
9:56 I remember Chicken Pox Parties, where parents would gather their children together so they would be exposed to chicken pox and gain an immunity to it. There is a children's book called The Chicken Pox Party by Sharon Dennis Wyeth.
@scaryrockerchick66
9 ай бұрын
"Pap-smear is one of the simplest procedures in modern medicine".... says a writer who never had a pap-smear and has no idea how awful they are for the patient. Absolute hell.
@SaraMKay
5 ай бұрын
Fun fact: Röntgen did not call his discovery “x-rays”. In German speaking countries, the radiation is to this day called: “Röntgen Strahlung” and “to get a x-ray” = “ein Röntgenbild machen”. Only the English speaking countries call it: x-ray. I don’t know why ….😘
@thomasbeach905
11 ай бұрын
The term “vaccination “ comes from the medical term for cowpox, “vaccinia” from “vaca” for cow. Initially, pus from old smallpox blisters, thought to be weakened, was scratched into the skin to cause immunity, a process called inoculation.. Sometimes this caused fatal smallpox (e.g. Cotton Mather). Vaccination, originally scratching cowpox blister contents into the skin, was safer as cowpox, though related to smallpox, is not fatal. The current injection technology, came much later.
@JoeRogansForehead
8 ай бұрын
If every invention that started with hearing a problem and fixing it (like Vaseline) was considered an accident , everything would be
@jlongino51823
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Patchy for my pacemaker.
@helloSanders
Жыл бұрын
Chesebrough, not to be confused with chesebro.
@PapriceP
Жыл бұрын
I accidentally invented a fart based aroma therapy.
@donHooligan
Жыл бұрын
the dutch oven
@btetschner
Жыл бұрын
4:56 It is crazy how influential penicillin (an antibiotic) is in the health care field. Doctors constantly prescribe antibiotics today.
@maddydog
Жыл бұрын
I accidentally made the mistake of finding this video and enjoying it 😂
@DegrassiStKids
Жыл бұрын
Lucy in the sky with diamonds was not about LSD it was a coincidence that the letters were LSD I’m not saying they were not on it or didn’t take inspiration from it but it was originally that Lennon’s son Julian came to him with a picture he drew when Lennon asked what it was he said it was his classmate Lucy in the sky with diamonds. There is a real life Lucy who passed away as an adult from lupus but she’s talked about it
@vickielawson3114
5 ай бұрын
Huge Beatles fan here, but I don’t buy John’s story that it was ONLY about an innocent little drawing.
@bettysmith4641
11 ай бұрын
I remember in the 70's I had strepthroat and doctor gave me penicillin, but when my daughter had it in the 80's doctor gave her antibiotics.
@thomasbeach905
11 ай бұрын
Penicillin is an antibiotic, but by the 1980’s, resistance was developing, so alternatives were needed.
@courtney1496
Жыл бұрын
No mention of insulin? 🤔
@s.d.berard7518
8 ай бұрын
As a woman, the Pap smear is not the simplest to go through….😾💚😺
@MrShadow-qz9xj
7 ай бұрын
he said it was simple, he said nothing about it being comfortable. being a male I have never had one (obviously), but I do have female friends all of which describe it as being extremely uncomfortable, some even saying painful.
@Agentsmith-k8q
Жыл бұрын
this mans voice is sold
@danidavis7912
Жыл бұрын
I never want to hear you say "Aaaayyee!" again.
@vickielawson3114
5 ай бұрын
That was pretty annoying.
@danidavis7912
5 ай бұрын
@@vickielawson3114 hahaha!
@btetschner
4 ай бұрын
Just incredible that something a milk maid casually said turned out to inspire a small pox vaccination!
@nathansyupp1137
11 ай бұрын
Good thing the first person to get that contrast wasn’t a diabetic. They wouldn’t have known what to do.
@KingLucy
Жыл бұрын
Greatbatch 😂
@kendramcgrath420
3 ай бұрын
I got married 👎downside, but the👍 upside. I had two beautiful children that I could never replace they are my most important thing in the world to me
@Kyeuss
Жыл бұрын
Spoiler: all of them
@markbruno5058
Жыл бұрын
75% lol
@michellevickersdixon1141
7 ай бұрын
She is adorable. I have a papillon too. She is a real joy to have. They are so smart and loving.
@flashmusicarchive9584
Жыл бұрын
I really should listen to crazy stuff people tell me. In a few years I could learn from it and win a nobel prize.
@Space-Fonzo-7
11 ай бұрын
Wasn't dialysis also an accident? I remember reading a while ago that someone inventeded it to recycle car oil as its original purpose.
@lp-xl9ld
Жыл бұрын
"Well, we've seen some success with that hypertension drug...but it's got this weird side effect, priapism (the technical name for long-lasting erections)." "Wait...WE CAN MARKET THE SIDE EFFECT!" Same thing happened with minoxidil: developed for circulatory problems, used primarily for hair growth. All hail serendipity!
@evolancer211
8 ай бұрын
WTF kind of soldering iron is that guy using? It looks like he's soldering a small gauge wire using a huge ass iron. So impractical lol
@philnight9563
5 ай бұрын
Too bad I’m allergic to penicillin!
@feralbluee
3 ай бұрын
Sorry, the “music” is too annoying and i really wanted to know. and it’s incredibly repetitive. have a great summer :) 🌷🌱
@MegaSpiritualWarrior
Жыл бұрын
Flies in the vaseline we are, sometimes it blows my mind, keep getting stuck here all the time...
@Somebodyelse141
Ай бұрын
Ironic to mention the fabrication of the penicillin story, then give a fabricated version of the smallpox inoculation story 😬
@RavensGohst
Жыл бұрын
Lucy in the sky with diamonds is about a picture John's son drew 🙄
@btetschner
4 ай бұрын
Have ANOTHER Weird History Food idea! Thinking about a To-Go or Delivery Medical Cuisine for medical professions*†...while watching this Weird History video! * Inspired from the Weird History videos about the Medical industry and my own experiences. † Getting food for breaks and meals is often a challenge is the fast and challenging medical field.
@btetschner
Жыл бұрын
1:29 I used to use watch Khan Academy videos (channel on KZitem) to identify and understand parts of Anatomy and Physiology for my community college classes. They would use easily identifiable images like that one.
@btetschner
Жыл бұрын
8:19 Our laboratory wasn't as colorful as that one, but the setup for our Chemistry class at Southeast Community College was similar to that.
@dust1127
5 ай бұрын
Penicillin was used in ancient times even if they didn't know why the mold help heal
@jazcc
Жыл бұрын
In Spanish that exactly the name we use for Pap smear. His last name.
@btetschner
7 ай бұрын
Conducting a Weird History experiment! Put Worcestershire Sauce* in a tasting cup (which is a measuring cup) and will taste it...during this Weird History video! Worcestershire Sauce was created by accident! * Inspired by the Weird History video title "Major Medical Discoveries That Happened By Mistake"
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