A Scientist Huffed Gas In A Balloon. This Is What Happened To His Kidneys.

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  • Опубликовано: 6 авг 2022
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    Patient MB portrayed by Abram Cutshall, Toast Scientist by Jake Rattan
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    These cases are patients who I, or my colleagues have seen. They are de-identified and many instances have been presented in more depth in an academic setting. These videos are not individual medical advice and are for general educational purposes only. I do not give medical advice over the internet.
    References:
    Poisoning by arseniuretted hydrogen of hydrogen arsenide, its properties, sources, relations to scientific and industrial operations, symptoms, post-mortem appearances, treatment, and prevention. John Glaister. 1908. archive.org/details/poisoning...
    Tox and Hound Fellow Friday- Metal Hydries I. toxandhound.com/toxhound/ff-m...
    Sun HD, Ma L, Hu XC, Zhang TD. Treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia by Ailing-1 therapy with use of syndrome differentiation of traditional Chinese medicine. Chin J Comb Trad Chin Med West Med 1992;12:170-171
    Complete Remission after Treatment of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia with Arsenic Trioxide. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...
    Acute on Chronic Arsenic Poisoning www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...
    Mechanisms of arsenic: sites.dartmouth.edu/toxmetal/...
    Severe acute arsine poisoning treated by plasma exchange. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
    Interaction of Arsine with Hemoglobin in Arsine-Induced Hemolysis. academic.oup.com/toxsci/artic...
    Arsine toxicity: Chemical and mechanistic implications www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...
    Arsenate replacing phosphate - alternative life chemistries and ion. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
    Arsenic Binding to Proteins. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
    A biography of arsenic and medicine www.hkmj.org/system/files/hkm...
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Image by Kenneth C. Zirkel
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  • @chubbyemu
    @chubbyemu  Год назад +9185

    WOOOOO yeah baby that's what i've been waiting for that's what it's all about

  • @adoptdontshop3911
    @adoptdontshop3911 Год назад +8417

    A teacher huffing random gases he makes in front of students. Truly one of the moments of all time.

    • @Ebani
      @Ebani Год назад +156

      Well yeah, it cannot not be one of the moments of all time 🤔 🤦‍♂️ 😅

    • @contingenceBoston
      @contingenceBoston Год назад +472

      Undoubtedly one of the events in history

    • @OmegaLesPaul
      @OmegaLesPaul Год назад +71

      he did it for the banter

    • @magnifeck4669
      @magnifeck4669 Год назад +160

      Truly a moment that happened in time.

    • @zyaphyr
      @zyaphyr Год назад

      Memento Mori fren

  • @africanfartingfrog
    @africanfartingfrog Год назад +1357

    Unfortunately for this guy, dialysis was still 125 years away. Makes you appreciate modern medicine

    • @Yeah_Nahhh
      @Yeah_Nahhh Год назад +38

      2:20 “he struggled to call for 911” apparently there was phones and cars in the early 1800’s… 🙄
      3:09 blood tests didn’t exist then & anemia wasn’t even known about nor did watches & I doubt they used a sundial

    • @DedRucktheDuck
      @DedRucktheDuck Год назад +104

      @@Yeah_Nahhh the story is dramatised but the case is from the 1800s look at 12:48

    • @codefreak8
      @codefreak8 Год назад +92

      @@Yeah_Nahhh It's a dramatization based on a real event, but adapted into a situation that modern viewers would know what to expect if it happened to them.

    • @exantiuse497
      @exantiuse497 Год назад +34

      @codefreak8 It has modern elements like calling 911 and blood tests, but then they just let him die as if modern treatments didn't exist. It's inconsistent; it should either have been written as it would've happened back in the day (e.g. instead of him calling 911 his assistant would've found him and taken him to the hospital on a horse carriage), or as it would happen today (he calls 911 and gets all the modern treatments and survives), not a weird mix of both

    • @Britishfurryrectifiersucker
      @Britishfurryrectifiersucker Год назад

      @@exantiuse497 Mm

  • @secretsauceskateboarding4337
    @secretsauceskateboarding4337 Год назад +490

    ChubbyEmu: “If you don’t need to put it in your lungs, don’t put it in your lungs.”
    Vapers: 😮

    • @therabbithat
      @therabbithat Год назад +52

      Smokers: didn't react because they're already not alive

    • @The_Raven_1025
      @The_Raven_1025 Год назад +48

      You mean this methamphetamine I got for Christmas isn't healthy?!

    • @lukethelegend9705
      @lukethelegend9705 Год назад +23

      Smokers of tobacco, weed, crack, heroin, meth, etc: This sign won’t stop me because I can’t read

    • @LugaresYJuegosTM
      @LugaresYJuegosTM Год назад +1

      ​​​@@lukethelegend9705 some vapers die from vaporized water overdose which is ridiculous I find vaping so gay 😂

    • @lukethelegend9705
      @lukethelegend9705 Год назад +14

      @@LugaresYJuegosTM no need to bring homophobia into this

  • @mumtrz
    @mumtrz Год назад +2277

    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?

    • @Candicedickinsonllc
      @Candicedickinsonllc Год назад +266

      But he always comes back alive

    • @WooMaster777
      @WooMaster777 Год назад +88

      Fans of this channel in the know. 😉🤣😂

    • @GeoNoob
      @GeoNoob Год назад +61

      He is immortal though

    • @danishbutter1847
      @danishbutter1847 Год назад +69

      @@Candicedickinsonllc he's Kenny, in Southpark he can't be killed

    • @chocolate198
      @chocolate198 Год назад +9

      @@danishbutter1847 lmao 💀

  • @threebloodrubies2132
    @threebloodrubies2132 Год назад +2177

    My favorite thing about the Wikipedia article for arsenic poisoning is that it lists "Drinking water without arsenic" as prevention

    • @spiritmatter1553
      @spiritmatter1553 Год назад +150

      Yay Wikipedia, coming in clutch!

    • @tkat6442
      @tkat6442 Год назад +307

      "Which type of bottled water would you prefer? With or without arsenic?"
      "I'll have without, please!"

    • @bruh-pj3kq
      @bruh-pj3kq Год назад +90

      I mean… that’s factual

    • @lauriepenner350
      @lauriepenner350 Год назад +48

      Citation needed

    • @Cairannx
      @Cairannx Год назад +18

      @@tkat6442 I read that in Leslie Nielsen's voice in Airplane!

  • @labrabellart1380
    @labrabellart1380 Год назад +198

    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

    • @ilyouschka
      @ilyouschka 11 месяцев назад +2

      thats why…. nvm 🤦‍♀️

    • @ravenID429
      @ravenID429 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@ilyouschka??

    • @DreamyyArt
      @DreamyyArt 4 месяца назад +1

      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
      @criidawg Месяц назад +1

      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

    • @labrabellart1380
      @labrabellart1380 Месяц назад +1

      @@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.

  • @WooShell
    @WooShell Год назад +280

    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 🙂

    • @Feyser1970
      @Feyser1970 Год назад +2

      Cold cases

    • @Triadii
      @Triadii Год назад +1

      I did not quite get whether he died from watching once, but I guess he died

    • @CoasterTeaFox
      @CoasterTeaFox 7 месяцев назад

      Agreed

  • @Tommymad1
    @Tommymad1 Год назад +1561

    "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"

    • @WooMaster777
      @WooMaster777 Год назад +29

      🤣😂🤣😂

    • @valkyriav
      @valkyriav Год назад +374

      “The horse, when questioned about whether he knew what had happened to his rider, replied neigh.”

    • @TechneMakre
      @TechneMakre Год назад +136

      @Aluzky while the horse is conditioned in its stable, MB is certainly not in a stable condition

    • @lleonard8854
      @lleonard8854 Год назад +4

      😂

    • @seraphale
      @seraphale Год назад +2

      Looool

  • @ionymous6733
    @ionymous6733 Год назад +1261

    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."

    • @manictiger
      @manictiger Год назад +131

      Doc, you don't hear that music?

    • @poiuy2782
      @poiuy2782 Год назад +5

      Hahhah

    • @JavaScrapper
      @JavaScrapper Год назад +187

      “EMIA MEANING PRESENTS IN BLO-“
      *flatlines*

    • @gnarlynicholasreviews
      @gnarlynicholasreviews Год назад +74

      @@JavaScrapper “Did the patient just say -emia meaning presence in blood…?”
      LMAO

    • @_Muser23
      @_Muser23 Год назад +7

      This brought me the first laugh of the day 😂

  • @oliverwilson11
    @oliverwilson11 Год назад +28

    Respect to this hero teacher who died trying to make chemistry entertaining and interesting for his students

    • @Mernom
      @Mernom 12 дней назад

      You mean the teacher that set his students the example of huffing random lab chemicals?

  • @goose5654
    @goose5654 Год назад +654

    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!”

    • @gliple
      @gliple Год назад +24

      WOOO

    • @spiritmatter1553
      @spiritmatter1553 Год назад +4

      My bet is that it’s Storyblocks.

    • @audiodood
      @audiodood Год назад +2

      @@gliple indeed

    • @xxprouxx
      @xxprouxx Год назад +51

      He also mouthed "I'm fast as fuck boiiiiii" lol

    • @BlueLightningHawk
      @BlueLightningHawk Год назад +4

      My boy drank too much purple drank son.

  • @darkfent
    @darkfent Год назад +2244

    Finally...I thought it would never came back. Afraid we would lose an episode just like that but thankfully it made a full recovery

    • @glenngriffon8032
      @glenngriffon8032 Год назад +283

      A youtube video went to processing. This is what happend to its audio.

    • @MiTaReX
      @MiTaReX Год назад +67

      Not just a full recovery, it is now better than before!

    • @dosmastrify
      @dosmastrify Год назад +32

      It would never come back, he thought.

    • @JCSolis_Lit
      @JCSolis_Lit Год назад +44

      A full recovery, unlike the patient of this video. ☠️

    • @barneyrubble4293
      @barneyrubble4293 Год назад +3

      Definitely one of those of the world.

  • @shawbros
    @shawbros Год назад +73

    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.

  • @Diana3229
    @Diana3229 Год назад +24

    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!!!

    • @n646n
      @n646n 4 месяца назад +1

      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.

  • @MsGrilo12
    @MsGrilo12 Год назад +3763

    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.

    • @gustavedelior3683
      @gustavedelior3683 Год назад +79

      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

    • @timothyb.4928
      @timothyb.4928 Год назад +31

      That's why i use needles for my H. Stay safe out there

    • @TheDragonLake
      @TheDragonLake Год назад +49

      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

    • @Mr.LaughingDuck
      @Mr.LaughingDuck Год назад +46

      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.

    • @johnr797
      @johnr797 Год назад +30

      @@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

  • @evilferris
    @evilferris Год назад +2505

    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.

    • @radicalbarrel2729
      @radicalbarrel2729 Год назад +141

      Thanks chemist

    • @spindleblood
      @spindleblood Год назад +378

      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.

    • @TysonJensen
      @TysonJensen Год назад

      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!

    • @kalidwapur
      @kalidwapur Год назад +41

      Yay and in biology our offices are often directly inside the lab...

    • @pluto8404
      @pluto8404 Год назад +118

      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.

  • @Batmans_Pet_Goldfish
    @Batmans_Pet_Goldfish Год назад +7

    Loved that you could tell what he was shouting by reading his lips due to how expressive the actor is.

  • @kenossa666
    @kenossa666 Год назад +4

    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 ♥

  • @priscilam.9808
    @priscilam.9808 Год назад +2650

    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.

    • @bola5671
      @bola5671 Год назад +329

      Well I'm curious if no one's asking. What were the crushed up roaches supposed to be a cure for?

    • @miscelaneasdealguem
      @miscelaneasdealguem Год назад +110

      Que louco...

    • @Ebani
      @Ebani Год назад +184

      They certainly weren't in it for the science

    • @screamingmimi90
      @screamingmimi90 Год назад +17

      @@bola5671 I’d also like to know.

    • @OwlyFisher
      @OwlyFisher Год назад +219

      @@bola5671 for asthma. reread the comment

  • @egodeathwish
    @egodeathwish Год назад +66

    after five days in the hospital, MB was able to make a... contribution to science

  • @no.onecares
    @no.onecares Год назад +2

    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 :)

  • @neveragainlilhomie
    @neveragainlilhomie Год назад +58

    these actors are top tier

  • @laurapeterson559
    @laurapeterson559 Год назад +1

    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!

  • @katanafourzeronine
    @katanafourzeronine Год назад +403

    Not wanting to end up as a subject of a ChubbyEmu video is possibly the main reason why I've gotten my health act together in recent months.

    • @AB-ee5tb
      @AB-ee5tb Год назад +80

      He said as he ate 100 multi vitamin gummies.
      These will make me healthy he thought, after all, they are vitamins.

    • @KonradTheWizzard
      @KonradTheWizzard Год назад +38

      HK is a fan of this channel and devoted to a healthy life. Every day he goes to the local market to get fresh healthy organic food. But today while strolling through his favorite market section he breaks down with severe stomache pain. Horrified he watches the world around him turn dark while a cat is chasing a mouse between the market stalls... minutes later emergency services arrive and try to assess his state, but all he can mumble is "...emia means presence in blood...". HK is rushed to the ER where we are now...

    • @chaseshaw9130
      @chaseshaw9130 Год назад +5

      same. his video on the homeless woman that ate all the cookies, and he proceeds to explain about insulin and refeeding syndrome, really helped me understand blood sugar and led me towards an almost-keto diet. it helps a lot now!

    • @fakename8956
      @fakename8956 Год назад +7

      Me too, i quit snorting cocaine.
      Smoking crack cocaine contains less contaminants and is therefor much healthier.
      Thanks dr youtube :)

    • @erikb4407
      @erikb4407 Год назад

      @@AB-ee5tb you got me audibly laughing like a psycho for a whole two minutes

  • @FramerTerminater
    @FramerTerminater Год назад +713

    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...

    • @-grumpygold1155
      @-grumpygold1155 Год назад +76

      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

    • @yoyo762
      @yoyo762 Год назад +15

      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.

    • @BeckBeckGo
      @BeckBeckGo Год назад +52

      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.

    • @-grumpygold1155
      @-grumpygold1155 Год назад

      @@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

    • @PrimericanIdol
      @PrimericanIdol Год назад +5

      @@yoyo762 Gun safety is perfectly acceptable, and highly encouraged. Why not safety advice for everything else?

  • @kellylynch975
    @kellylynch975 11 месяцев назад +8

    Do more historical cases, please & thank you! I loved when you touched on the evolution of surgery sanitation.

  • @maryprantephd6736
    @maryprantephd6736 Год назад +1

    I love your beautiful, rich color pallettes; you're not only artistically sophisticated, you're also technologically adept. Great episode. Thanks, Dr Bernard!🖼😊

  • @Findecommie
    @Findecommie Год назад +918

    Would love to see more historical cases adapted, people did some crazy shit before anyone really understood biochemistry

    • @asandax6
      @asandax6 Год назад +20

      Like the Curies.

    • @dr.altoclef9255
      @dr.altoclef9255 Год назад +26

      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
      @tylern6420 Год назад +8

      @@dr.altoclef9255 bro really thought drinking radiation would turn you into luffy 💀

    • @dr.altoclef9255
      @dr.altoclef9255 Год назад +15

      @@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.”

    • @tylern6420
      @tylern6420 Год назад

      @@dr.altoclef9255 tho tbh if it did actually turn me into rubber i would drink it

  • @fangbozhu7379
    @fangbozhu7379 Год назад +593

    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

  • @stevepotts7024
    @stevepotts7024 Год назад

    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...

  • @ATIbbettMedia
    @ATIbbettMedia Год назад +6

    I was treated for APML with arsenic trioxide, been in complete remission for 3 years!
    Great video Chubbyemu

    • @dshe8637
      @dshe8637 Год назад +2

      That's so good x

  • @maximvf
    @maximvf Год назад +140

    The first successful dialysis was performed in 1943. No chance for poor guy back in time.

  • @momothebug
    @momothebug Год назад +373

    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!

    • @Objectified
      @Objectified Год назад +4

      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.

    • @momothebug
      @momothebug Год назад +5

      @@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.

    • @vinslungur
      @vinslungur 11 месяцев назад +4

      Chinese sounds so cool to me. Tones are so important to the meaning of chinese words

  • @iananderson8363
    @iananderson8363 Год назад

    I love the way the music changes, you have a great production value Dr!

  • @kellyford8832
    @kellyford8832 Год назад

    thank you bro, and best of wellness to you and all who you know and their friends and family too

  • @DrJohnWatson8
    @DrJohnWatson8 Год назад +100

    “If you don’t have to put it in your lungs, don’t put it in your lungs”
    Words of wisdom

    • @twixxtro
      @twixxtro Год назад

      I don't have to put air in my lungs only if i want to survive

    • @marks6663
      @marks6663 Год назад +1

      That applies equally well to anuses, too.

    • @CloudyStxr_
      @CloudyStxr_ Год назад

      ​@@marks6663 huh? xD

    • @FatalShotGG
      @FatalShotGG Год назад +1

      *reads this while smoking weed*

  • @windCR
    @windCR Год назад +458

    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!

    • @ROGER2095
      @ROGER2095 Год назад +5

      No better time to be alive than now.

    • @ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588
      @ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 Год назад +8

      @@ROGER2095 In comparison to the past, of course, but I’d rather have been born 10000 years in the future.

    • @LordCoeCoe
      @LordCoeCoe Год назад +6

      @@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 What if humanity has been enslaved by aliens in that time?

    • @ROGER2095
      @ROGER2095 Год назад +11

      @@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 . . . .

    • @ShadeSlayer1911
      @ShadeSlayer1911 Год назад +3

      @@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.

  • @minakimiz
    @minakimiz Год назад +8

    hi chubby, i love that you speak and pronounce chinese correctly and refer to its medical history and practice. it feels so good to see eastern asian history represented in videos !

  • @tonyquark493
    @tonyquark493 Год назад

    As usual, your videos are informative, entertaining, and speak to humanity as a whole. Great job and great info!! Wow, that was a lot of information I never knew, and I thought I knew a lot :)

  • @AngelWish3
    @AngelWish3 Год назад +133

    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.

  • @ryanlee5593
    @ryanlee5593 Год назад +396

    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.

    • @akshinbarathi8914
      @akshinbarathi8914 Год назад +4

      phosphot properties are used for weight loss supplements lol, like 2,4 dnp

    • @zath3153
      @zath3153 Год назад +17

      Holy shit! I totally missed that the first time around. It can cause spontaneous human combustion when IN the body!? That's terrifying.

    • @pierrecurie
      @pierrecurie Год назад +12

      @@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.

    • @AhmetOzdemir-om3bj
      @AhmetOzdemir-om3bj Год назад +3

      @@akshinbarathi8914 DNP does not have a phosphorus atom.

    • @akshinbarathi8914
      @akshinbarathi8914 Год назад

      @@AhmetOzdemir-om3bj yeah my miatske

  • @stephaniemixon6386
    @stephaniemixon6386 Год назад

    Love your channel…Perfect the way it is. I learn so much.

  • @Gratefullydead2k2
    @Gratefullydead2k2 Год назад

    I love your videos so much. It helps me not think of all my medical stuff going on oddly enough

  • @Fiverr7890
    @Fiverr7890 Год назад +45

    I love the way he says "Take care of yourself, be well." It's euphoric honestly.

  • @drhandcraft
    @drhandcraft Год назад +323

    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
      @noob19087 Год назад +4

      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"?

    • @coffeetoffee0x019
      @coffeetoffee0x019 Год назад +7

      @@noob19087 could also similar to why sodium chloride doesn't explode or get insanely poisonous, like sodium and chlorine respectively

    • @krisreddish3066
      @krisreddish3066 Год назад +12

      @@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.

    • @chrisnotyou
      @chrisnotyou Год назад +1

      Uh..
      Spoilers. Gah!

    • @solarmoth4628
      @solarmoth4628 Год назад +8

      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.

  • @DRZWhisperer
    @DRZWhisperer Год назад +1

    A good video as always. I really enjoy the history lesson along with it. Well done.

  • @AdmiringObserverR
    @AdmiringObserverR Год назад +1

    I love your content Dr. 🧡 wonderful job as always.
    I can't help but think about vaping trends with that warning of keeping things out of your lungs.

  • @chesthoIe
    @chesthoIe Год назад +42

    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."

    • @JFDSmit-rm6tw
      @JFDSmit-rm6tw Год назад

      @@MadeOfConfusion play it at the slowest setting.

  • @lisaschuster686
    @lisaschuster686 Год назад +76

    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...

    • @BlurbFish
      @BlurbFish Год назад +14

      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.

  • @melissahowtonpoole.1120
    @melissahowtonpoole.1120 Год назад

    I've watched many of your videos and I enjoy learning the science from them. I wish you could do more than one a month, but I understand you have life besides the videos. Thank you.

  • @DelfinaKS
    @DelfinaKS Месяц назад

    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!

  • @Shikujiru
    @Shikujiru Год назад +454

    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.

    • @brambl3014
      @brambl3014 Год назад +9

      I did see when this video was uploaded the deleted quickly few days ago

    • @faithdorey5919
      @faithdorey5919 Год назад +5

      @@brambl3014 yah! I thought that was because RUclips didn't like it and it got demonitised or something

    • @thedeviouspanda
      @thedeviouspanda Год назад +2

      Yes, I tried to play it on my way home and I thought it was my Bluetooth acting up.

    • @maciejp7829
      @maciejp7829 Год назад +2

      didnt notice any audio issues when I watched it few days ago. Probably because I watch at 1,5 speed.

    • @artwithsoli5450
      @artwithsoli5450 Год назад +1

      @@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

  • @if860
    @if860 Год назад +175

    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.

    • @evelynu3550
      @evelynu3550 Год назад +17

      Ah, thallium. Nothing gets rid of unwanted (and wanted) hair better.

    • @chemistryofquestionablequa6252
      @chemistryofquestionablequa6252 Год назад +11

      @@evelynu3550 gets rid of life too...

    • @if860
      @if860 Год назад +6

      @@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 GETS RID OF UNWANTED PERSONS :D

  • @AlkisGD
    @AlkisGD Год назад +3

    “People would suffer illness and be found not alive days later, just like M.B.”
    What a way to deliver the devastating news! 😭

  • @leegoddard2618
    @leegoddard2618 Год назад

    Suddenly recently you been popping in my feed. Glad you pOpped Up. 😁👍

  • @DoctorAzmain
    @DoctorAzmain Год назад +209

    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?

    • @Eibarwoman
      @Eibarwoman Год назад +61

      Don't be an arse, avoid arsine gas!

    • @DoctorAzmain
      @DoctorAzmain Год назад +23

      @@Eibarwoman haha this should be a tagline in chemistry labs across the world 😂

    • @MLG_Kitten
      @MLG_Kitten Год назад +22

      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.

    • @mightbetoad6786
      @mightbetoad6786 Год назад +20

      farts???

    • @Finkelfunk
      @Finkelfunk Год назад

      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.

  • @andyb1653
    @andyb1653 Год назад +30

    "The biggest difference between poison and medicine, is dosage"
    -My Endocrinologist

  • @dn5662
    @dn5662 Год назад

    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.

  • @Mina-gs8tq
    @Mina-gs8tq Год назад

    Thank you for the best comments section I've seen in a while!

  • @localmenace3043
    @localmenace3043 Год назад +45

    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.

  • @ItsJustJessOkay
    @ItsJustJessOkay Год назад +14

    1:42 Scientist mouths the words!! Woooo baby! That's what I've been waiting for, that's what it's all about!!

  • @bacherfkinmcskiddlywop2491
    @bacherfkinmcskiddlywop2491 Год назад

    WOW, such great videos. I was completely enthralled

  • @rohitchaoji
    @rohitchaoji Год назад +2

    These actors are great, they give a nice and hilarious performance for subjects so serious

  • @joshuamlnarik5942
    @joshuamlnarik5942 Год назад +124

    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 🌟

  • @SubaruLove
    @SubaruLove Год назад +45

    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.

  • @neonloneliness1
    @neonloneliness1 Год назад +7

    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
      @heinrichschmehl611 10 месяцев назад

      For now

    • @neonloneliness1
      @neonloneliness1 10 месяцев назад

      @@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??

    • @heinrichschmehl611
      @heinrichschmehl611 10 месяцев назад

      @lizakot5623 idk dude best of luck though

  • @darrelllancaster9554
    @darrelllancaster9554 Год назад

    Kudos to your actors. As well as the excellent content of the videos.

  • @hemaurr
    @hemaurr Год назад +12

    YES I WASN'T ABLE TO SEE IT THE FIRST TIME ITS FINALLY UP

  • @drivers99
    @drivers99 Год назад +27

    “This video is ready to be uploaded. I won’t have to fix and re-upload it,” he thought.

    • @tkat6442
      @tkat6442 Год назад +4

      But he made a "FULL RECOVERY"!!

  • @davidh9844
    @davidh9844 Год назад +8

    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.

  • @lowkeyyogitremendous
    @lowkeyyogitremendous Год назад

    This is amazing, I really appreciate this

  • @marukomu_7105
    @marukomu_7105 Год назад +16

    1:50 the meme lord never fails to put Easter eggs in his videos

  • @82dorrin
    @82dorrin Год назад +22

    " ...he struggled to call 911."
    Well, yeah. Telephones weren't invented yet. Neither was 911.

    • @Kyanzes
      @Kyanzes Год назад

      Yeah, sounded out of place.

    • @dr.altoclef9255
      @dr.altoclef9255 Год назад +1

      He probably called for a servant to get his horse or something.

  • @angrypastabrewing
    @angrypastabrewing Год назад +4

    As a Chemist, he should at least test the metal shavings first for contaminants if he still insist on inhaling hydrogen gas

  • @marikamariamagdalenam
    @marikamariamagdalenam Год назад

    Love the video, especially the guy who portraits the teacher, so enthusiastic 😛🤯

  • @firesandflowers
    @firesandflowers Год назад +142

    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.

  • @00kidney
    @00kidney Год назад +113

    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.

    • @TheMessiahOfThe99Percent
      @TheMessiahOfThe99Percent Год назад

      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

    • @ryandoyle3413
      @ryandoyle3413 Год назад

      I recommend Sawbones, a podcast about just that! A doctor and her husband going over old times cures, modern wellness trends, and current events

  • @Timok67
    @Timok67 Год назад

    This channel gives me a greater appreciation for the complexity of the human body that we take for granted on a daily basis.

  • @michaelhicks8603
    @michaelhicks8603 Год назад

    Thankyou! Another fantastic video. It was especially good that you took the time to explain why these chemicals (despite their toxicity) should not be feared but respected due to their critically important uses. As an inquisitive amateur chemist, I find public perception of chemistry to be poor, and plagued by dogmatic rhetoric and intense ignorance. I hope that more professionals and creatives can slowly change the perceptions, especially with content just like this!

  • @Xclub40X
    @Xclub40X Год назад +24

    0:49 MB WAS a scientist.
    *now he is no more*
    *For what he thought was H2O*
    *was H2SO4*

  • @paramchaudhary3583
    @paramchaudhary3583 Год назад +8

    4:00 I love that Charlie screaming WOOOOOO YEA BABY is still a meme

    • @Styrac
      @Styrac Год назад

      He also does it at 1:50, lmao

  • @CanOfMapleSyrup
    @CanOfMapleSyrup Год назад +1

    1:49 i love that you used Charlie's iconic wooo from the pooping unicorn vid 🤣

  • @janeosborne165
    @janeosborne165 Год назад

    Good one ~ I had absolutely no clue about what was causing MB's problems.

  • @marcelomagofke1743
    @marcelomagofke1743 Год назад +31

    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

  • @KomradZX1989
    @KomradZX1989 Год назад +11

    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!

  • @themightyai-5302
    @themightyai-5302 Год назад

    I just love documentation. Good documentation makes everything better.

  • @astarryeyedgirl
    @astarryeyedgirl Год назад

    I am HERE for the actor you chose! Good one!

  • @FallenAngelHiroko
    @FallenAngelHiroko Год назад +92

    Thank you for these videos. It makes things that are complicated and otherwise boring things entertaining and memorable for regular folks like me.

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd Год назад

      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.

  • @pegasBaO23
    @pegasBaO23 Год назад +17

    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

  • @etmax1
    @etmax1 Год назад

    As always presented in a most amusingly if somewhat dire fashion. Thanks

  • @limitbreak2966
    @limitbreak2966 Год назад

    My man i want to watch your videos so badly as their interesting, but fuck me *youre so good at describing in detail what’s happening that it literally gives me panic attacks due to having terrible health anxiety*
    Lmaoo, this IS A compliment by the way, I just wish I didn’t have that health anxiety so I could watch them lmao

  • @verukasault9065
    @verukasault9065 Год назад +30

    Fascinating case! Thank you, Dr. Bernard. I like the mix of discussing a historical case and today's technology. RIP to MB.

  • @cbmx1x1
    @cbmx1x1 Год назад +17

    Seriously, I wonder how many kids have developed a love of science, chemistry, and medicine as a result of these videos. Excellent work!

  • @beatiger9361
    @beatiger9361 Год назад

    I like the way you tell the story. With excellent actors.

  • @j.d.4697
    @j.d.4697 Год назад

    This was an exceptionally educational episode!

  • @brandonrhys21
    @brandonrhys21 Год назад +48

    Thanks for bringing us great, medical-scientific content monthly.

  • @milanobus
    @milanobus Год назад +26

    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.

  • @Viddough
    @Viddough Год назад

    This is the most fascinating channel on RUclips

  • @paulvarn4712
    @paulvarn4712 Год назад

    Thank your emu for your scientific discipline. I expect you are a strong diagnostician among your peers.