Man you have to REALLY keep an eye on this guy, previously he rubbed a whole tub of pain relief cream on his crotch and now inhaling 3 litres of poisonous gas?
I just found this channel and I am so so glad that someone out there is making videos that alert of the dangers of poisoning. I had been breathing in a small gas leak in my apartment for five months and not only did doctors not know what was going on at the time, but they also don’t know how to treat my symptoms. And this is in 2021-2022. Thankfully I am alive and recovering. The risk of poisonings in general are too high for us not to have more widespread information about them and the actual dangers it accompanies. Thank you thank you thank you for doing what you do!!!
Same happened to us, we'd been breathing in a natural gas (methane) leak for years due to improper installation of pipes. Luckily it isn't dangerous but the inspector smelled it immediately, somehow, despite nobody else ever smelling it.
Chemist here. Never, ever, drink or eat something that has been in laboratory glassware. Even if you personally and thoroughly washed it, some chemicals in trace amounts will do terrible things to your insides. This stunt at 0:56 makes me physically recoil. Besides, you shouldn’t be consuming food or drink anywhere near the inside of a laboratory.
We know this thanks to the noble sacrifice of many, many nineteenth century chemists who did just about every stupid thing possible with various reagents. Don’t make their sacrifice in vain! Avoid inhaling random substances from your lab!
Thank you for the insight. Found out my prescription meds were made in a lab, never taking those things again. Who knows how much damage those blood pressure meds made in lab equipment have done to me.
I'm a chemist and I did not see that coming. Also, that's an excelent rule of thumb. If you don't need to get it in your lungs then don't (or at least try not to). Specially if you don't know exactly what it is. Excellent content, love your videos, I'am wating for next month already.
These things remind me of other incidents, such as the incident with the demon core or the incident with the professor who would put liquid nitrogen in his mouth and blow it out but one time ...he accidentally swallowed it. It would seem bravado and showmanship can be a detriment to science and the minds behind it
Also a chemist. I work with industrial hazmat. I just finished 2 weeks of computer safety training and spent 1 day in the lab so far. I dont remember the exact test but testing the hazmat fluid for cyanide, sulfates, or oxidizers involves mixing with sulfuric acid first. I've barely been in that lab but my ass whould be grass if anyone even thought about doing stuff like this. The dean at my undergrad school whould show us as freshmen the reaction of HCl + NaOH -> H2O + NaCl by drinking it. Really hope he stopped doing that by now for reasons like this. Reagents not made for consumption could be contaminated
To be fair, why do you think today's labs are so highly regulated? Because some braggart did something predictably stupid, and was killed/maimed in a very disturbing manner.
The fact that you explain why each thing is named the way it is, is so amazing. I'm autistic, and learning things the "normal" way by just taking in information and attributing names to it is really difficult for me. But learning the information behind those names helps me to understand it much better - not to mention the fact that I'll also be able to somewhat understand the meaning of OTHER names that use those same naming methods. It's extremely refreshing to see :D
helll yeah no wonder i loved these im an aspie and i go "wait whazzat" and the video literally tells me about it for me and i dont have to google it immediately after, helps me understand what in the fuck is goin on
@@criidawg Aah, that's relatable for sure! I spent a long time not really believing if I was autistic or not, but the sheer amount of times I came across autistic people who literally just described my habits as if they knew me, it kind of came clear. Kind of unsolicited advice here, sorry. But there's a test you can do online, did you know? It's called the Autism Quotient (AQ) test. If you're ever interested in finding out if you have more symptoms of autism, or even just ruling it out, that's a great place to start.
if I ever present to the emergency room with some weird symptoms like this, my last words will be "Please, just contact Chubby Emu!" They'll be like, "Add delirium to his list of symptoms."
Revisiting a centuries old case is some really nice and highly interesting change to the channel. Would appreciate if you did something like that every now and then 🙂
My dad was born in 1945 in Brazil. He was treated for his severe asthma as a child with arsenic. He told the story that one day his stomach hurt so bad he was taken to the hospital and doctors figured he had arsenic poisoning. His family owned a chemical lab and he became a chemist later on. Another one of his treatments as a child for asthma was crushed up cockroaches made into a powder.
When I was a kid, I accidentally inhaled some acid fumes. It burned my sinuses, and really screwed up my sense of smell. I was beginning to think my smell would never recover, but gradually over a couple/few days it returned to normal.
I work in a laboratory where we have large canisters of various pure gases such as hydrogen, argon, nitrogen, etc. In our safety training we received explicit warning not to use the gas to pitch our voices as there was a recent documented death of someone who passed out doing it, hit tiled floor face first, and died. Another victim of voice pitching...
Every time an intern walks in on their first day Intern: Oooh these gases seems fun 😏 Supervisor: *sighs* Here we go again… ok, as per the newly added standard protocol, DO NOT inhale any of the gas canisters
Such professionalism. Higher education at work. Kind of like the warnings chain saws have about not touching the blades while they are in motion. I guess we need some Yogi Barra's about how the obvious is hard to see apparently.
So when we were kids, my sister decided, on her birthday, to nonstop huff the helium tank my parents got for her balloons later that day while they were out getting her cake from the bakery. I did it too, once or twice, because who doesn’t want to sound like a cartoon? But she kept going. And going and going. And eventually she tried playing the fainting game with our friend and collapsed. And at first I though “ok, idiot daredevil is playing the fainting game” but she didn’t really get up. I was in lifeguard training at that time, so I checked her out, waited a few seconds, and then did CPR. She came around. I have no idea if she had just fainted or had suffered asphyxia from too much helium. (It’s an inert gas so it’s not toxic. But too much can suffocate you) Anyway, she was fine and my parents flipped their shit on both of us (unfair… but I wasn’t going to turn her in) Don’t do inhalants, kids.
@@BeckBeckGo its probably because she just had lesser o2 than its required to send to her brain, the helium takes up the o2 slot with each breath of the funny gas she took, good job on resuscitating her! she could had damaged her brain if no help came along immediately
In my college physics course we covered nuclear physics and they showed us an old ‘Revigator’…where you would put water in to make radium water. Because “this is so cool so it probably does great stuff if you drink it”.
@@tylern6420 Pretty much. Like “well we discovered this new thing so…it probably fixes all our problems and let’s try it. Don’t bother testing it first, it’s fine I’m sure.”
Ah, the age of scientific discovery, when scientists experimented on themselves! “Congratulations, you’ve discovered how to synthesize Arsine gas! Too bad you were your own lab rat!”
anyone ever notice the actors in the videos and just how well they're at presenting the state of mind of the kind of people who decide to literally snort up a balloon
@@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 10,000 years - That's way beyond my imagination. I have an encyclopedia from the 50's that says by the 1980's, robots will be doing almost all the work, and humans will be living a life of leisure. Still waiting . . . .
@@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 but we have no idea if the future is good or not. I'm usually the optimist who believes that humanity will always find a way to kve forward In an overall positive way. But I can't pretend to know that 10k years in the future will definitely be a good time.
I really appreciate the information about arsenic's use in Chinese traditional medicine and how that lead to some modern cancer treatments. It was also cool to hear you use a couple of Chinese names, it's neat to hear it pronounced properly and to hear you use a little bit of Chinese, thanks as always Dr Bernard!
Arsenic use in the treatment of a variety of illnesses evolved independently in a number of areas. Arsenic derivations for blood illnesses and cancers were in use in the U.S. well before the advent of Arsenic trioxide for APL. Arsenic trioxide itself was in use for other purposes when the Chinese study on APL was released.
@@Objectified thank you for the information :) I like learning about these things because all I knew prior to this was "arsenic is a dangerous, poisonous substance" and didn't know it was used in medicine, traditional or western. Very interesting. I suppose there are a lot of "dangerous" things that are used in medicine, from opium and amphetamines to viper venom and mercury. Arsenic is just one I hadn't heard anything about before.
These are the highlight of my month! I always think that I'm going to save it for a rainy day when I need to pick me up, but I never hold out for long. Please keep them coming!
As a undergrad phosphorous chemist, we had a similar incident involving diphenylphosphene (the phosphorous depiction 6:37, but with two of the H's replaced with phenyl rings). This sample came in a broken ampule in our lab and unexpectedly blew up in a lab member's face (he's doing fine don't worry). There is a lone pair on the phosphorous that can easily be oxidized and releases a LOT of energy in doing so. In case anybody was wondering about the spontaneous body combustion that was described.
@@zath3153 That claim is highly sus, and I can't find a source for it. Phosphine is highly flammable, but causing spontaneous human combustion is very unlikely.
I hope that the real patient can look down from wherever he is and appreciate that his death helped educate us on how to treat this type of poisoning. His sacrifice may have not been on purpose, but such accidents are part of why we learned how to help people. I hope he can take pride in that fact, wherever he is.
Chubby, this is so cool! I actually worked in the basic research lab right across Pier Paolo Pandolfi, which is referenced in the Sloan Kettering paper. This is soo cool! My research project actually entailed using ATO (Arsenic Trioxide, in conjunction with All Trans-retinoic Acid (vitamin A) to treat not only APL but also breast and pancreatic cancers. This is so neat! I learned a lot from this video!!
@@noob19087 I think you are right, or the selective dose kills the selective cancer cells more than it kills other cells in this case. Like how many chemotherapy class drug works.
It’s wild that the comment I saw right after was someone describing how they had been treated with this exact regiment. It must feel cool to see your research in action.
I think that you telling a story which is really easy to understand and entertaining, while even informative-the actors are such a superb idea to add to this! I'm really glad I found your channel ♥
If you turn on subtitles, you get at 8:14 "It was used as a pesticide, and the Romans knew it as the King of Poisons, it was a poison of Kings because it was an untraceable way to get rid of someone. English sources say that the French at one point knew arsenic as the Powder of Inheritance, where it was used in untraceable deaths of the elderly. "I totally have no idea what happened to them, they just got sick from the food!" would be brought up to insurers, and wealth and an estate would be passed on."
I started watching these videos like 2 years ago with my bf and I still find myself enjoying every story. Best way to distract myself from everything else, and also very informational. Thank you chubbyemu :)
Hah! Glad you got the audio fixed! Like I said last time: As always, informative and thought-provoking. Your manner of presenting these problems is enough to make me think fondly back on the chemistry and biology classes I took in high school and remember my love of science. These videos help me understand why I should and shouldn't worry about my health and move me toward making better, more-informed decisions when I do feel ill.
Pro tip from a doctor: PLEASE don't inhale random gases - nitrous, your own farts, ESPECIALLY not arsine. Like, just why would you? How would you explain it in the ER?
Well. In my city we have a lake full of arsenic, so some summers we have to boil our water. If you're curious, it's the Great Slave Lake (guess how many times I've been cancelled over that) I live in Yellowknife, somewhere north on the lake lol.
If you actually know half the shit an ER nurse has seen just this morning I doubt that even the most embarrassing explanation is gonna raise an eyebrow. ER nurses and doctors have seen it ALL.
The quality of your content is easily putting you at the absolute forefront of a much much needed niche. And your pragmatic organization of the information and the way you relay it in concise language simple enough for any laypeople to understand. Somebody smelt an ingot into a chubby 24K golden emu award. You're doing a service to the world 🌟
Scientists had very short life spans when these compounds were being discovered. Chemists always recorded taste, for example. If you don’t need to put it on your tongue...
Chemists of old had some workplace practices that today seem insane. They would mouth-pipette, haphazardly use solvents such as benzene, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride and carbon disulfide, and they'd work in areas without adequate ventilation. Smoking in the lab wasn't entirely uncommon, either.
I worked in a pharmacy cleanroom. I accidentally shattered a glass ampule of arsenic trioxide while preparing a dose. I immediately thought I was going to die, until I saw the patient was getting 10ml of it. Sharp glass and poisons are a scary combination.
Ah, the "good old days" where sulfuric acid was always contaminated with arsenic, mercury, lead, sometimes selenium, thallium, and tellurium, cause this elements frequently are present in pyrites and sulfide ores, and also in lead used for lining of the apparatuses for H2SO4 production. Even nowadays when we have reagents available that are so pure that contaminants are given in ppm you can still buy special grade of zinc described as "free of arsenic", meant to be used in demonstration of Marsh's test, since marsh test is so sensitive for As and Sb.
I love your beautiful, rich color pallettes; you're not only artistically sophisticated, you're also technologically adept. Great episode. Thanks, Dr Bernard!🖼😊
I love your sound design. The music you use for exposition during the symptoms before and during the hospital visit is fantastic at building tension! Your analysis and graphics used, combined with the real-life dramatizations really play together to create a professionally made video that deserves all the praise. Can't wait for the next Heme Review
Thank you for another amazing video! Learning about how they treated patients back then makes me really grateful for all the incredible advancements medical science made and that can help us today.
WWII, Post-War and the Great Society a) Why did the American economy boom during WWII? b) How did government initiatives stabilise and support the economy in WWII? c) What populations economically benefited from the war? d) How did the GI Bill support the American Dream for WASP men? e) How did suburbs develop after the war? f) How is the Great Society an example of progressivism? g) What is the link between the Great Society and the Vietnam War? The Sickened Economy, Reaganomics and the Obama Era a) What is stagflation? b) Why did the USA enter a period of stagflation in the 1970s? c) What is OPEC? How did their embargo impact the American economy? d) How did Nixon, Ford and Carter attempt to address the economic issues? e) What is supply-side economics? f) What is a deficit? Why did Reaganomics create a high deficit? g) Where did Reagan focus federal spending during his administrations? h) What caused the economic crisis of 2007-08? i) How did the government respond? j) What is the Affordable Care Act? k) Why were Americans so divided over the Affordable Care Act? Following are some debate points to consider for ‘The Business of American Business’ as a whole These must be DEBATE points - questions where there are at least 2 potentially opposite perspectives. These are not ‘research questions’. Reflect on the key themes that have been introduced and revisited throughout this unit: The Growth of Capitalism The Establishment of Big Business Class division Personal wealth
chemistry major here. getting a whiff of something noxious is such a MoodTM. freshman year i remember sticking my face in an evaporating dish and getting a lungful of nitric acid fumes. it's interesting bc with other things like ammonia your lungs kind of spasm, your breath cuts off which stops you from inhaling more, but nitric acid just went right in. the lab instructor made me include EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE THING that could happen to your body from nitric acid inhalation in my lab report. she kept sending me back bc she said the list wasn't complete. on maybe the fourth time i recited yet another horrible illness she smiled and said "there. i hope you'll follow health & safety now :)" the next few days i had the worst cough of my entire life but other than that i was fine
@@heinrichschmehl611 yeah one of the long-term effects of inhaling nitric acid fumes is lung disease something like 15 years down the line, i'm still confused though like is that from chronic exposure or is one mild exposure enough??
The music you play when people take drugs or whatever is so off putting yet perfect. Every time I hear it play in your videos I think “oooh, things are gonna get good now!” I love it!
Modern medicine is wonderful but it has evolved to a great extent due to the meticulous documents kept over centuries. It is amazing that back then this case was recorded in such detail. You are doing a wonderful job to document current understanding in video format but with proper references in the description. It is people like you who help make progress in medicine. Keep up the good work!
I had APL & had to have arsenic trioxode (intravenously) & All-Trans Retinoic Acid (ATRA) in 2015. The arsenic trioxide actually wasn't so bad. But the ATRA pills (which technically is just a vitamin A derivative in very high doses) gave me *debilitating* headaches (like, vomiting from pain, back in the hospital kind of headaches). It was awful. Most people don't have that side effect though aparently, so I guess I was just unlucky.
I'm not a doctor or a scientist, but I still look forward to your video every month. You present in such an informative way that I can understand easily.
Sounds like Mr. Teacher's brain latched onto that giddy feeling so as to mimick an addiction. That feeling was so amazingly strong that it didn't even make him question inhaling metal shavings, smh.
I would say the chemist was dumb for inhaling whatever he made, but in the 1800s chemists would taste, smell and even inhale their chemical discoveries so they can record it in their journal
I thought the possible gas could be phosphine or sulfur trioxide. Was not expecting arsine. Nowadays arsenic, lead, bromates and mercury is heavily monitored in water and air. Some industries might cheat but arsenic poisoning will kill you and it's a terrible way to go.
Hi Dr. Bernard! Thanks for another fantastic video, I look forward to these every month! I work as a nurse in a hospital and have come across a couple of very interesting cases in my clinical setting, perhaps they would be sources of inspiration for future videos? About a year ago a gentleman came in with hypoxia, he was part of a mennonite community and didn't ever go to see traditional doctors unless it was absolutely necessary, in this case it was necessary. Apparently this gentleman had a diesel engine in his living room, which he would run overnight to power his wife's cpap machine for sleep apnea. He had been self-treating for his hypoxia with methylene blue, a dye. His urine was green and skin was blue tinted. We came to find he likely had carbon monoxide poisoning from the engine in addition to toxicity from methylene blue overdosing. Another interesting case we had recently was a woman who, sadly, has permanent brain damage from drinking methanol instead of regular recreational alcohol, ethanol. She suffered an anoxic brain injury and is now believed to be blind from the ingestion in addition to having new cognitive deficits. Very sad stuff but incredibly interesting! Hope this message finds you well and provides some inspiration for future videos!
As a pharmacist, I love watching your contents. I binge watch it at some point and all caught up. It additional learning and very informative. I don't practice now but still work with drugs data 😁
Dr Bernard even though I'm a Scrum master in IT INDUSTRY but i like your medical videos a lot, if you were my teacher in school I'd have pursued medicine instead of computers
Another great Chubbyemu video yayyy! And Kudos to the Mandarin pronunciation you did in the video! I can already foresee the kind of reaction your fans on Bilibili would make when this vid is uploaded on Bilibili. Keep up the good work!
@@tkat6442 He actually did posted a few special thank-you videos in Mandarin on Bilibili for 1 mil subs there. I’m genuinely impressed by his dedication on both channels haha.
If I ever have a sudden medical emergency on an airplane at 38,000ft, Dr. Bernard is the person I'd want to be on board lol. He seems like he would be a diagnostic gigachad.
This might be my favorite one, it touches on so many things I find interesting that aren’t really discussed a lot on this channel, like bench chemistry, workplace safety and the application of Chinese medicine in a modern context. Good work!
I love watching your videos, and the information that I learned from them. I have multiple sclerosis, and recently I was in the hospital. I was able to understand the doctors more clearly because of the information I have learned directly from this channel. Thank you for sharing, I just wish you posted more often :-)
Fantastic report! I've wondered about inhaling hydrogen, but fear of explosion has kept me on a helium standard. After this, I don't think I will ever inhale anything except room air, and oxygen in an emergency. Very well done. Dr H, M.D. Int Medicine.
Inhaling gasses to make funny voices is a vital part of chemistry. The real lesson is to actually check what your reagents are and also probably be more careful with strong sulfuric acid, most noxious of the strong acids. There are easier ways to make hydrogen.
One chemistry lesson I remember ended with a whole lot of nothing happening. Two lessons were learned: 1. Don't buy reagents on eBay. 2. Hydrogen peroxide has an expiration date. Amateurs still have to buy off of eBay though. No reputable chemical supplier will sell to a residential address, so the only option is to resort to disreputable ones.
@@vylbird8014 man, I love living in Europe: I can simply go to the pharmacy to get chemicals. They will ask questions and they will make me sign the receipt, but I can get a lot of stuff.
@@KonradTheWizzard I'm in the UK, and the only chemicals the pharmacy will sell here are drugs. If you want something as simple as copper sulfate, you'll probably have to go somewhere a little dodgy to get it. The most exotic I've had to get was tetrahydrofuran, which I wanted to test as a solvent for vapor smoothing of PLA 3D prints. It didn't work. Not many solvents work on PLA.
@@vylbird8014 For context: I'm in Germany. We still call it "Apotheke" for the simple reason that they have all the chemicals and expertise there to mix compound pharmaceuticals on demand if you need them. As far as I'm aware most countries around us are similar. I cannot get absolutely everything there and I can certainly get some stuff cheaper on the internet, but it is always a good starting point. BTW: acetone (nail polish remover) might work a bit on PLA. Some people recommend a 10% solution of NaOH, but I would be extremely cautious around this stuff (hint: 1% solution is enough to kill almost all bacteria, viruses and damage your skin; I use 2-5% to strip photo laquer from circuit boards and it dissolves the cheap brushes I use to agitate the solvent bath). Very fine sand paper might be a better and safer way to smoothen PLA prints.
@@KonradTheWizzard Tried acetone. Nothing. Even pure, it does nothing on PLA. Not does toluene or xylene. The only solvent I've found that is any good on PLA is dichloromethane.
Watched all your videos. The more you know the more you realize you're not in control of your body in a molecular level. Disrupt that balance, bad thing can occur. Just like the ecosystem, the air we breathe, combustion engine, to name a few. Thank you Bernard, for your knowledge and the way you deliver them.
My 10th grade biology teacher was an absolute boss! I had got some balloons filled with helium and was fucking around during study hall with it. He noticed me with another balloon and non-chalantly asked me to come to his desk, me thinking he was gonna do some as well and have a good laugh. As soon as I got next to him he pulled a pin from out of nowhere like a ninja and popped the balloon. I was absolutely shocked! I was like WTF?! dude! He just smiled and said I couldn't just let you inhale a balloon full of gas like that, and I know you wouldn't have listened if I had asked you not too. He then gave me the same explanation at the end of this video, if you don't need to inhale it, don't inhale it. So I almost have never inhaled helium again, and honestly kind of glad after watching this. Honestly one of my most favorite teachers. Real awesome dude.
WOOOOO yeah baby that's what i've been waiting for that's what it's all about
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My favorite thing about the Wikipedia article for arsenic poisoning is that it lists "Drinking water without arsenic" as prevention
Yay Wikipedia, coming in clutch!
"Which type of bottled water would you prefer? With or without arsenic?"
"I'll have without, please!"
I mean… that’s factual
Citation needed
@@tkat6442 I read that in Leslie Nielsen's voice in Airplane!
A teacher huffing random gases he makes in front of students. Truly one of the moments of all time.
Well yeah, it cannot not be one of the moments of all time 🤔 🤦♂️ 😅
Undoubtedly one of the events in history
he did it for the banter
Truly a moment that happened in time.
Memento Mori fren
Man you have to REALLY keep an eye on this guy, previously he rubbed a whole tub of pain relief cream on his crotch and now inhaling 3 litres of poisonous gas?
But he always comes back alive
Fans of this channel in the know. 😉🤣😂
He is immortal though
@@Candicedickinsonllc he's Kenny, in Southpark he can't be killed
@@danishbutter1847 lmao 💀
I just found this channel and I am so so glad that someone out there is making videos that alert of the dangers of poisoning. I had been breathing in a small gas leak in my apartment for five months and not only did doctors not know what was going on at the time, but they also don’t know how to treat my symptoms. And this is in 2021-2022. Thankfully I am alive and recovering.
The risk of poisonings in general are too high for us not to have more widespread information about them and the actual dangers it accompanies. Thank you thank you thank you for doing what you do!!!
Same happened to us, we'd been breathing in a natural gas (methane) leak for years due to improper installation of pipes. Luckily it isn't dangerous but the inspector smelled it immediately, somehow, despite nobody else ever smelling it.
these actors are top tier
Chemist here. Never, ever, drink or eat something that has been in laboratory glassware. Even if you personally and thoroughly washed it, some chemicals in trace amounts will do terrible things to your insides. This stunt at 0:56 makes me physically recoil. Besides, you shouldn’t be consuming food or drink anywhere near the inside of a laboratory.
Thanks chemist
I hope they just opened those fresh out of the box and they'd never been used before. I keep telling myself that so I don't cringe like you did lol.
We know this thanks to the noble sacrifice of many, many nineteenth century chemists who did just about every stupid thing possible with various reagents. Don’t make their sacrifice in vain! Avoid inhaling random substances from your lab!
Yay and in biology our offices are often directly inside the lab...
Thank you for the insight. Found out my prescription meds were made in a lab, never taking those things again. Who knows how much damage those blood pressure meds made in lab equipment have done to me.
I'm a chemist and I did not see that coming. Also, that's an excelent rule of thumb. If you don't need to get it in your lungs then don't (or at least try not to). Specially if you don't know exactly what it is. Excellent content, love your videos, I'am wating for next month already.
These things remind me of other incidents, such as the incident with the demon core or the incident with the professor who would put liquid nitrogen in his mouth and blow it out but one time ...he accidentally swallowed it. It would seem bravado and showmanship can be a detriment to science and the minds behind it
That's why i use needles for my H. Stay safe out there
Also a chemist. I work with industrial hazmat. I just finished 2 weeks of computer safety training and spent 1 day in the lab so far. I dont remember the exact test but testing the hazmat fluid for cyanide, sulfates, or oxidizers involves mixing with sulfuric acid first. I've barely been in that lab but my ass whould be grass if anyone even thought about doing stuff like this. The dean at my undergrad school whould show us as freshmen the reaction of HCl + NaOH -> H2O + NaCl by drinking it. Really hope he stopped doing that by now for reasons like this. Reagents not made for consumption could be contaminated
To be fair, why do you think today's labs are so highly regulated?
Because some braggart did something predictably stupid, and was killed/maimed in a very disturbing manner.
@@Mr.LaughingDuck it's a good rule of thumb, if you see an oddly specific warning label on something, you *know* why it's there
The fact that you explain why each thing is named the way it is, is so amazing. I'm autistic, and learning things the "normal" way by just taking in information and attributing names to it is really difficult for me. But learning the information behind those names helps me to understand it much better - not to mention the fact that I'll also be able to somewhat understand the meaning of OTHER names that use those same naming methods. It's extremely refreshing to see :D
thats why…. nvm 🤦♀️
@@ilyouschka??
helll yeah no wonder i loved these
im an aspie and i go "wait whazzat" and the video literally tells me about it for me and i dont have to google it immediately after, helps me understand what in the fuck is goin on
mfw i think im not autistic and then i see someone have the same struggles as me, and its because they are autstic: 😀
(POSITIVE IM JUST RELATING LOL
@@criidawg Aah, that's relatable for sure! I spent a long time not really believing if I was autistic or not, but the sheer amount of times I came across autistic people who literally just described my habits as if they knew me, it kind of came clear.
Kind of unsolicited advice here, sorry. But there's a test you can do online, did you know? It's called the Autism Quotient (AQ) test. If you're ever interested in finding out if you have more symptoms of autism, or even just ruling it out, that's a great place to start.
if I ever present to the emergency room with some weird symptoms like this, my last words will be "Please, just contact Chubby Emu!" They'll be like, "Add delirium to his list of symptoms."
Doc, you don't hear that music?
Hahhah
“EMIA MEANING PRESENTS IN BLO-“
*flatlines*
@@JavaScrapper “Did the patient just say -emia meaning presence in blood…?”
LMAO
This brought me the first laugh of the day 😂
There is no way you paid the actor to mouth “WOOOO BABY! That’s what I’ve been waiting for, that’s what it’s all about!”
WOOO
My bet is that it’s Storyblocks.
@@gliple indeed
He also mouthed "I'm fast as fuck boiiiiii" lol
My boy drank too much purple drank son.
Revisiting a centuries old case is some really nice and highly interesting change to the channel. Would appreciate if you did something like that every now and then 🙂
Cold cases
I did not quite get whether he died from watching once, but I guess he died
Agreed
Finally...I thought it would never came back. Afraid we would lose an episode just like that but thankfully it made a full recovery
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Not just a full recovery, it is now better than before!
It would never come back, he thought.
A full recovery, unlike the patient of this video. ☠️
Definitely one of those of the world.
"MB was a 31 year old man. As he fell he struggled to call his horse, who took him where he is now, the apothecary"
🤣😂🤣😂
“The horse, when questioned about whether he knew what had happened to his rider, replied neigh.”
@Aluzky while the horse is conditioned in its stable, MB is certainly not in a stable condition
😂
Looool
ChubbyEmu: “If you don’t need to put it in your lungs, don’t put it in your lungs.”
Vapers: 😮
Smokers: didn't react because they're already not alive
You mean this methamphetamine I got for Christmas isn't healthy?!
Smokers of tobacco, weed, crack, heroin, meth, etc: This sign won’t stop me because I can’t read
@@lukethelegend9705 some vapers die from vaporized water overdose which is ridiculous I find vaping so gay 😂
@@LugaresYJuegosTM no need to bring homophobia into this
My dad was born in 1945 in Brazil. He was treated for his severe asthma as a child with arsenic. He told the story that one day his stomach hurt so bad he was taken to the hospital and doctors figured he had arsenic poisoning. His family owned a chemical lab and he became a chemist later on. Another one of his treatments as a child for asthma was crushed up cockroaches made into a powder.
Well I'm curious if no one's asking. What were the crushed up roaches supposed to be a cure for?
Que louco...
They certainly weren't in it for the science
@@bola5671 I’d also like to know.
@@bola5671 for asthma. reread the comment
after five days in the hospital, MB was able to make a... contribution to science
When I was a kid, I accidentally inhaled some acid fumes.
It burned my sinuses, and really screwed up my sense of smell.
I was beginning to think my smell would never recover, but gradually over a couple/few days it returned to normal.
I work in a laboratory where we have large canisters of various pure gases such as hydrogen, argon, nitrogen, etc. In our safety training we received explicit warning not to use the gas to pitch our voices as there was a recent documented death of someone who passed out doing it, hit tiled floor face first, and died. Another victim of voice pitching...
Every time an intern walks in on their first day
Intern: Oooh these gases seems fun 😏
Supervisor: *sighs* Here we go again… ok, as per the newly added standard protocol, DO NOT inhale any of the gas canisters
Such professionalism.
Higher education at work.
Kind of like the warnings chain saws have about not touching the blades while they are in motion.
I guess we need some Yogi Barra's about how the obvious is hard to see apparently.
So when we were kids, my sister decided, on her birthday, to nonstop huff the helium tank my parents got for her balloons later that day while they were out getting her cake from the bakery.
I did it too, once or twice, because who doesn’t want to sound like a cartoon? But she kept going. And going and going. And eventually she tried playing the fainting game with our friend and collapsed. And at first I though “ok, idiot daredevil is playing the fainting game” but she didn’t really get up.
I was in lifeguard training at that time, so I checked her out, waited a few seconds, and then did CPR. She came around. I have no idea if she had just fainted or had suffered asphyxia from too much helium. (It’s an inert gas so it’s not toxic. But too much can suffocate you)
Anyway, she was fine and my parents flipped their shit on both of us (unfair… but I wasn’t going to turn her in)
Don’t do inhalants, kids.
@@BeckBeckGo its probably because she just had lesser o2 than its required to send to her brain, the helium takes up the o2 slot with each breath of the funny gas she took, good job on resuscitating her! she could had damaged her brain if no help came along immediately
@@yoyo762 Gun safety is perfectly acceptable, and highly encouraged. Why not safety advice for everything else?
Would love to see more historical cases adapted, people did some crazy shit before anyone really understood biochemistry
Like the Curies.
In my college physics course we covered nuclear physics and they showed us an old ‘Revigator’…where you would put water in to make radium water. Because “this is so cool so it probably does great stuff if you drink it”.
@@dr.altoclef9255 bro really thought drinking radiation would turn you into luffy 💀
@@tylern6420 Pretty much. Like “well we discovered this new thing so…it probably fixes all our problems and let’s try it. Don’t bother testing it first, it’s fine I’m sure.”
@@dr.altoclef9255 tho tbh if it did actually turn me into rubber i would drink it
Respect to this hero teacher who died trying to make chemistry entertaining and interesting for his students
You mean the teacher that set his students the example of huffing random lab chemicals?
Ah, the age of scientific discovery, when scientists experimented on themselves! “Congratulations, you’ve discovered how to synthesize Arsine gas! Too bad you were your own lab rat!”
anyone ever notice the actors in the videos and just how well they're at presenting the state of mind of the kind of people who decide to literally snort up a balloon
Actors? I thought he poisoned someone to get most realistic results!
There is even the "yeah baby" of penguinz0/moist critical at 1:55 lel
Either helium, oxygen or nitrous oxide
Probably nitrous oxide if they actually got effects
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This case made me even more grateful of medical treatments we have compared to even 30 years ago, thank you chubbyemu for bringing this up!
No better time to be alive than now.
@@ROGER2095 In comparison to the past, of course, but I’d rather have been born 10000 years in the future.
@@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 What if humanity has been enslaved by aliens in that time?
@@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 10,000 years - That's way beyond my imagination. I have an encyclopedia from the 50's that says by the 1980's, robots will be doing almost all the work, and humans will be living a life of leisure. Still waiting . . . .
@@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 but we have no idea if the future is good or not. I'm usually the optimist who believes that humanity will always find a way to kve forward In an overall positive way. But I can't pretend to know that 10k years in the future will definitely be a good time.
Loved that you could tell what he was shouting by reading his lips due to how expressive the actor is.
The first successful dialysis was performed in 1943. No chance for poor guy back in time.
I really appreciate the information about arsenic's use in Chinese traditional medicine and how that lead to some modern cancer treatments. It was also cool to hear you use a couple of Chinese names, it's neat to hear it pronounced properly and to hear you use a little bit of Chinese, thanks as always Dr Bernard!
Arsenic use in the treatment of a variety of illnesses evolved independently in a number of areas. Arsenic derivations for blood illnesses and cancers were in use in the U.S. well before the advent of Arsenic trioxide for APL. Arsenic trioxide itself was in use for other purposes when the Chinese study on APL was released.
@@Objectified thank you for the information :) I like learning about these things because all I knew prior to this was "arsenic is a dangerous, poisonous substance" and didn't know it was used in medicine, traditional or western. Very interesting.
I suppose there are a lot of "dangerous" things that are used in medicine, from opium and amphetamines to viper venom and mercury. Arsenic is just one I hadn't heard anything about before.
Chinese sounds so cool to me. Tones are so important to the meaning of chinese words
These are the highlight of my month! I always think that I'm going to save it for a rainy day when I need to pick me up, but I never hold out for long. Please keep them coming!
As a undergrad phosphorous chemist, we had a similar incident involving diphenylphosphene (the phosphorous depiction 6:37, but with two of the H's replaced with phenyl rings). This sample came in a broken ampule in our lab and unexpectedly blew up in a lab member's face (he's doing fine don't worry). There is a lone pair on the phosphorous that can easily be oxidized and releases a LOT of energy in doing so. In case anybody was wondering about the spontaneous body combustion that was described.
phosphot properties are used for weight loss supplements lol, like 2,4 dnp
Holy shit! I totally missed that the first time around. It can cause spontaneous human combustion when IN the body!? That's terrifying.
@@zath3153 That claim is highly sus, and I can't find a source for it. Phosphine is highly flammable, but causing spontaneous human combustion is very unlikely.
@@akshinbarathi8914 DNP does not have a phosphorus atom.
@@AhmetOzdemir-om3bj yeah my miatske
I hope that the real patient can look down from wherever he is and appreciate that his death helped educate us on how to treat this type of poisoning. His sacrifice may have not been on purpose, but such accidents are part of why we learned how to help people. I hope he can take pride in that fact, wherever he is.
I was treated for APML with arsenic trioxide, been in complete remission for 3 years!
Great video Chubbyemu
That's so good x
“If you don’t have to put it in your lungs, don’t put it in your lungs”
Words of wisdom
I don't have to put air in my lungs only if i want to survive
That applies equally well to anuses, too.
@@marks6663 huh? xD
*reads this while smoking weed*
Chubby, this is so cool!
I actually worked in the basic research lab right across Pier Paolo Pandolfi, which is referenced in the Sloan Kettering paper. This is soo cool!
My research project actually entailed using ATO (Arsenic Trioxide, in conjunction with All Trans-retinoic Acid (vitamin A) to treat not only APL but also breast and pancreatic cancers.
This is so neat! I learned a lot from this video!!
You seem like someone I could ask. Why isn't the arsenic trioxide toxic? Is it just a case of "the dose makes the poison"?
@@noob19087 could also similar to why sodium chloride doesn't explode or get insanely poisonous, like sodium and chlorine respectively
@@noob19087 I think you are right, or the selective dose kills the selective cancer cells more than it kills other cells in this case. Like how many chemotherapy class drug works.
Uh..
Spoilers. Gah!
It’s wild that the comment I saw right after was someone describing how they had been treated with this exact regiment. It must feel cool to see your research in action.
I think that you telling a story which is really easy to understand and entertaining, while even informative-the actors are such a superb idea to add to this! I'm really glad I found your channel ♥
If you turn on subtitles, you get at 8:14 "It was used as a pesticide, and the Romans knew it as the King of Poisons, it was a poison of Kings because it was an untraceable way to get rid of someone. English sources say that the French at one point knew arsenic as the Powder of Inheritance, where it was used in untraceable deaths of the elderly. "I totally have no idea what happened to them, they just got sick from the food!" would be brought up to insurers, and wealth and an estate would be passed on."
@@MadeOfConfusion play it at the slowest setting.
I love the way he says "Take care of yourself, be well." It's euphoric honestly.
I started watching these videos like 2 years ago with my bf and I still find myself enjoying every story. Best way to distract myself from everything else, and also very informational. Thank you chubbyemu :)
Hah! Glad you got the audio fixed! Like I said last time: As always, informative and thought-provoking. Your manner of presenting these problems is enough to make me think fondly back on the chemistry and biology classes I took in high school and remember my love of science. These videos help me understand why I should and shouldn't worry about my health and move me toward making better, more-informed decisions when I do feel ill.
I did see when this video was uploaded the deleted quickly few days ago
@@brambl3014 yah! I thought that was because RUclips didn't like it and it got demonitised or something
Yes, I tried to play it on my way home and I thought it was my Bluetooth acting up.
didnt notice any audio issues when I watched it few days ago. Probably because I watch at 1,5 speed.
@@brambl3014 I saw it for a split second and then when I came back it was gone hah, I thought I was hallucinating or something
Pro tip from a doctor: PLEASE don't inhale random gases - nitrous, your own farts, ESPECIALLY not arsine. Like, just why would you? How would you explain it in the ER?
Don't be an arse, avoid arsine gas!
@@Eibarwoman haha this should be a tagline in chemistry labs across the world 😂
Well. In my city we have a lake full of arsenic, so some summers we have to boil our water.
If you're curious, it's the Great Slave Lake (guess how many times I've been cancelled over that) I live in Yellowknife, somewhere north on the lake lol.
farts???
If you actually know half the shit an ER nurse has seen just this morning I doubt that even the most embarrassing explanation is gonna raise an eyebrow.
ER nurses and doctors have seen it ALL.
Do more historical cases, please & thank you! I loved when you touched on the evolution of surgery sanitation.
The quality of your content is easily putting you at the absolute forefront of a much much needed niche. And your pragmatic organization of the information and the way you relay it in concise language simple enough for any laypeople to understand. Somebody smelt an ingot into a chubby 24K golden emu award. You're doing a service to the world 🌟
Scientists had very short life spans when these compounds were being discovered. Chemists always recorded taste, for example. If you don’t need to put it on your tongue...
Chemists of old had some workplace practices that today seem insane. They would mouth-pipette, haphazardly use solvents such as benzene, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride and carbon disulfide, and they'd work in areas without adequate ventilation. Smoking in the lab wasn't entirely uncommon, either.
I’ve been 7 years in remission from APML having had 64 Arsenic Trioxide chemotherapy and ATRA treatment. Living proof that Arsenic isn’t all bad!
I worked in a pharmacy cleanroom. I accidentally shattered a glass ampule of arsenic trioxide while preparing a dose. I immediately thought I was going to die, until I saw the patient was getting 10ml of it. Sharp glass and poisons are a scary combination.
Ah, the "good old days" where sulfuric acid was always contaminated with arsenic, mercury, lead, sometimes selenium, thallium, and tellurium, cause this elements frequently are present in pyrites and sulfide ores, and also in lead used for lining of the apparatuses for H2SO4 production. Even nowadays when we have reagents available that are so pure that contaminants are given in ppm you can still buy special grade of zinc described as "free of arsenic", meant to be used in demonstration of Marsh's test, since marsh test is so sensitive for As and Sb.
Ah, thallium. Nothing gets rid of unwanted (and wanted) hair better.
@@evelynu3550 gets rid of life too...
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 GETS RID OF UNWANTED PERSONS :D
I love your beautiful, rich color pallettes; you're not only artistically sophisticated, you're also technologically adept. Great episode. Thanks, Dr Bernard!🖼😊
I love your sound design. The music you use for exposition during the symptoms before and during the hospital visit is fantastic at building tension! Your analysis and graphics used, combined with the real-life dramatizations really play together to create a professionally made video that deserves all the praise. Can't wait for the next Heme Review
Thank you for another amazing video! Learning about how they treated patients back then makes me really grateful for all the incredible advancements medical science made and that can help us today.
WWII, Post-War and the Great Society
a) Why did the American economy boom during WWII?
b) How did government initiatives stabilise and support the economy in WWII?
c) What populations economically benefited from the war?
d) How did the GI Bill support the American Dream for WASP men?
e) How did suburbs develop after the war?
f) How is the Great Society an example of progressivism?
g) What is the link between the Great Society and the Vietnam War?
The Sickened Economy, Reaganomics and the Obama Era
a) What is stagflation?
b) Why did the USA enter a period of stagflation in the 1970s?
c) What is OPEC? How did their embargo impact the American economy?
d) How did Nixon, Ford and Carter attempt to address the economic issues?
e) What is supply-side economics?
f) What is a deficit? Why did Reaganomics create a high deficit?
g) Where did Reagan focus federal spending during his administrations?
h) What caused the economic crisis of 2007-08?
i) How did the government respond?
j) What is the Affordable Care Act?
k) Why were Americans so divided over the Affordable Care Act?
Following are some debate points to consider for ‘The Business of American Business’ as a whole These must be DEBATE points - questions where there are at least 2 potentially opposite perspectives. These are not ‘research questions’.
Reflect on the key themes that have been introduced and revisited throughout this unit:
The Growth of Capitalism The Establishment of Big Business
Class division Personal wealth
I recommend Sawbones, a podcast about just that! A doctor and her husband going over old times cures, modern wellness trends, and current events
chemistry major here. getting a whiff of something noxious is such a MoodTM. freshman year i remember sticking my face in an evaporating dish and getting a lungful of nitric acid fumes. it's interesting bc with other things like ammonia your lungs kind of spasm, your breath cuts off which stops you from inhaling more, but nitric acid just went right in. the lab instructor made me include EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE THING that could happen to your body from nitric acid inhalation in my lab report. she kept sending me back bc she said the list wasn't complete. on maybe the fourth time i recited yet another horrible illness she smiled and said "there. i hope you'll follow health & safety now :)"
the next few days i had the worst cough of my entire life but other than that i was fine
For now
@@heinrichschmehl611 yeah one of the long-term effects of inhaling nitric acid fumes is lung disease something like 15 years down the line, i'm still confused though like is that from chronic exposure or is one mild exposure enough??
@lizakot5623 idk dude best of luck though
Man, I always hate it when the patient dies. The fact that this case happened almost 200 years ago - and that it can still happen today? Wild.
The music you play when people take drugs or whatever is so off putting yet perfect. Every time I hear it play in your videos I think “oooh, things are gonna get good now!” I love it!
Modern medicine is wonderful but it has evolved to a great extent due to the meticulous documents kept over centuries. It is amazing that back then this case was recorded in such detail. You are doing a wonderful job to document current understanding in video format but with proper references in the description. It is people like you who help make progress in medicine. Keep up the good work!
Seriously, I wonder how many kids have developed a love of science, chemistry, and medicine as a result of these videos. Excellent work!
YES I WASN'T ABLE TO SEE IT THE FIRST TIME ITS FINALLY UP
I am glued to your webinars! Very insightful. The mug was stylin'. Thank you Dr. Bernard! P.S. I mention your website other people all the time...
I had APL & had to have arsenic trioxode (intravenously) & All-Trans Retinoic Acid (ATRA) in 2015. The arsenic trioxide actually wasn't so bad. But the ATRA pills (which technically is just a vitamin A derivative in very high doses) gave me *debilitating* headaches (like, vomiting from pain, back in the hospital kind of headaches). It was awful. Most people don't have that side effect though aparently, so I guess I was just unlucky.
Fascinating case! Thank you, Dr. Bernard. I like the mix of discussing a historical case and today's technology. RIP to MB.
1:33 cue the "getting high" music
I'm not a doctor or a scientist, but I still look forward to your video every month. You present in such an informative way that I can understand easily.
Same
"The biggest difference between poison and medicine, is dosage"
-My Endocrinologist
“The dose makes the poison” indeed
Botulinum toxin be like
Also Paracelesus
Sounds like Mr. Teacher's brain latched onto that giddy feeling so as to mimick an addiction. That feeling was so amazingly strong that it didn't even make him question inhaling metal shavings, smh.
Thank you for these videos. It makes things that are complicated and otherwise boring things entertaining and memorable for regular folks like me.
I think the interesting part is when Dr. Bernard tells of how the condition plays out in the person. We don't get case studies in high school.
Thanks for bringing us great, medical-scientific content monthly.
Even by the standards off 1841 when this supposedly happened, this must have been an awfully stupid thing to do.
1:50 the meme lord never fails to put Easter eggs in his videos
1:42 Scientist mouths the words!! Woooo baby! That's what I've been waiting for, that's what it's all about!!
These actors are great, they give a nice and hilarious performance for subjects so serious
0:49 MB WAS a scientist.
*now he is no more*
*For what he thought was H2O*
*was H2SO4*
Noice!😂
I would say the chemist was dumb for inhaling whatever he made, but in the 1800s chemists would taste, smell and even inhale their chemical discoveries so they can record it in their journal
1:49 i love that you used Charlie's iconic wooo from the pooping unicorn vid 🤣
That was like a speedrun to kill your kidneys, the reaction was almost instant after he inhaled it. Someone let Tomatoanus know.
I thought the possible gas could be phosphine or sulfur trioxide. Was not expecting arsine.
Nowadays arsenic, lead, bromates and mercury is heavily monitored in water and air. Some industries might cheat but arsenic poisoning will kill you and it's a terrible way to go.
Yes indeed, luckily the testing is a lot more streamlined than it used to be.
I love the way the music changes, you have a great production value Dr!
i absolutely love this dude - truly brilliant content, some of the best on the website
im trying to get Bernard to make more content want to help
Hi Dr. Bernard! Thanks for another fantastic video, I look forward to these every month! I work as a nurse in a hospital and have come across a couple of very interesting cases in my clinical setting, perhaps they would be sources of inspiration for future videos? About a year ago a gentleman came in with hypoxia, he was part of a mennonite community and didn't ever go to see traditional doctors unless it was absolutely necessary, in this case it was necessary. Apparently this gentleman had a diesel engine in his living room, which he would run overnight to power his wife's cpap machine for sleep apnea. He had been self-treating for his hypoxia with methylene blue, a dye. His urine was green and skin was blue tinted. We came to find he likely had carbon monoxide poisoning from the engine in addition to toxicity from methylene blue overdosing. Another interesting case we had recently was a woman who, sadly, has permanent brain damage from drinking methanol instead of regular recreational alcohol, ethanol. She suffered an anoxic brain injury and is now believed to be blind from the ingestion in addition to having new cognitive deficits. Very sad stuff but incredibly interesting! Hope this message finds you well and provides some inspiration for future videos!
God help that poor woman.
- Hey mb!
MB - what?
- You huffed all our balloon gasses again?
MB - mb.
Thank you for disclaiming at the beginning that the story you're telling is adapted from a real case for the modern era. It's awesome content
" ...he struggled to call 911."
Well, yeah. Telephones weren't invented yet. Neither was 911.
Yeah, sounded out of place.
He probably called for a servant to get his horse or something.
His “Be well” can make everyone becoming well
As a pharmacist, I love watching your contents. I binge watch it at some point and all caught up. It additional learning and very informative. I don't practice now but still work with drugs data 😁
These videos never cease to be incredibly interesting. Easily one of the best channels on RUclips, and important.
thank you bro, and best of wellness to you and all who you know and their friends and family too
As always, quality work…I love hearing “ Dr. Bernard “ as I remember you posting as an intern….keep up the great work and THX for the information
“This video is ready to be uploaded. I won’t have to fix and re-upload it,” he thought.
But he made a "FULL RECOVERY"!!
Dr Bernard even though I'm a Scrum master in IT INDUSTRY but i like your medical videos a lot, if you were my teacher in school I'd have pursued medicine instead of computers
Another great Chubbyemu video yayyy! And Kudos to the Mandarin pronunciation you did in the video! I can already foresee the kind of reaction your fans on Bilibili would make when this vid is uploaded on Bilibili. Keep up the good work!
I don't know any Mandarin at all, and yet I had a feeling he was nailing the pronunciation!
@@tkat6442 He actually did posted a few special thank-you videos in Mandarin on Bilibili for 1 mil subs there. I’m genuinely impressed by his dedication on both channels haha.
4:00 I love that Charlie screaming WOOOOOO YEA BABY is still a meme
He also does it at 1:50, lmao
The actor here is hilarious. He looked pretty demented even BEFORE he inhaled that balloon full of gas. 😆
If I ever have a sudden medical emergency on an airplane at 38,000ft, Dr. Bernard is the person I'd want to be on board lol. He seems like he would be a diagnostic gigachad.
Good, you would die then. He is just reading medical reports and making pretty videos, but otherwise incompetent
This might be my favorite one, it touches on so many things I find interesting that aren’t really discussed a lot on this channel, like bench chemistry, workplace safety and the application of Chinese medicine in a modern context. Good work!
“People would suffer illness and be found not alive days later, just like M.B.”
What a way to deliver the devastating news! 😭
I love watching your videos, and the information that I learned from them. I have multiple sclerosis, and recently I was in the hospital. I was able to understand the doctors more clearly because of the information I have learned directly from this channel. Thank you for sharing, I just wish you posted more often :-)
I love listening to Mandarin being spoken by someone who doesn't have a trace of an accent. The shift is fascinating.
Fantastic report! I've wondered about inhaling hydrogen, but fear of explosion has kept me on a helium standard. After this, I don't think I will ever inhale anything except room air, and oxygen in an emergency. Very well done. Dr H, M.D. Int Medicine.
Hydrogen isn’t going to randomly explode but it’s still not great
Inhaling gasses to make funny voices is a vital part of chemistry. The real lesson is to actually check what your reagents are and also probably be more careful with strong sulfuric acid, most noxious of the strong acids. There are easier ways to make hydrogen.
One chemistry lesson I remember ended with a whole lot of nothing happening. Two lessons were learned: 1. Don't buy reagents on eBay. 2. Hydrogen peroxide has an expiration date.
Amateurs still have to buy off of eBay though. No reputable chemical supplier will sell to a residential address, so the only option is to resort to disreputable ones.
@@vylbird8014 man, I love living in Europe: I can simply go to the pharmacy to get chemicals. They will ask questions and they will make me sign the receipt, but I can get a lot of stuff.
@@KonradTheWizzard I'm in the UK, and the only chemicals the pharmacy will sell here are drugs. If you want something as simple as copper sulfate, you'll probably have to go somewhere a little dodgy to get it.
The most exotic I've had to get was tetrahydrofuran, which I wanted to test as a solvent for vapor smoothing of PLA 3D prints. It didn't work. Not many solvents work on PLA.
@@vylbird8014 For context: I'm in Germany. We still call it "Apotheke" for the simple reason that they have all the chemicals and expertise there to mix compound pharmaceuticals on demand if you need them. As far as I'm aware most countries around us are similar. I cannot get absolutely everything there and I can certainly get some stuff cheaper on the internet, but it is always a good starting point.
BTW: acetone (nail polish remover) might work a bit on PLA. Some people recommend a 10% solution of NaOH, but I would be extremely cautious around this stuff (hint: 1% solution is enough to kill almost all bacteria, viruses and damage your skin; I use 2-5% to strip photo laquer from circuit boards and it dissolves the cheap brushes I use to agitate the solvent bath). Very fine sand paper might be a better and safer way to smoothen PLA prints.
@@KonradTheWizzard Tried acetone. Nothing. Even pure, it does nothing on PLA. Not does toluene or xylene. The only solvent I've found that is any good on PLA is dichloromethane.
Thank you Dr. Emu! You make my day every time! 💙
Watched all your videos. The more you know the more you realize you're not in control of your body in a molecular level. Disrupt that balance, bad thing can occur. Just like the ecosystem, the air we breathe, combustion engine, to name a few.
Thank you Bernard, for your knowledge and the way you deliver them.
Also, when I got diagnosed with anemia last year, literally the first thing I thought of was Chubbyemu defining it!
“Presence in blood” 🩸 lol
I'm glad you're giving this actor more work. He's so ridiculous.
My 10th grade biology teacher was an absolute boss! I had got some balloons filled with helium and was fucking around during study hall with it. He noticed me with another balloon and non-chalantly asked me to come to his desk, me thinking he was gonna do some as well and have a good laugh. As soon as I got next to him he pulled a pin from out of nowhere like a ninja and popped the balloon. I was absolutely shocked! I was like WTF?! dude! He just smiled and said I couldn't just let you inhale a balloon full of gas like that, and I know you wouldn't have listened if I had asked you not too. He then gave me the same explanation at the end of this video, if you don't need to inhale it, don't inhale it. So I almost have never inhaled helium again, and honestly kind of glad after watching this. Honestly one of my most favorite teachers. Real awesome dude.
Thanks dude. Good to know 👌
Humans react the same to chemicals today as they did back then
--Chubby Emu