Major Medical Discoveries That Happened By Mistake
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2023
- Every year, millions of hours and billions of dollars are poured into medical innovation, with new methods of improving, sustaining, and extending human life discovered on a near daily basis - yet without some significant accidental medical discoveries thrown into the mix, many of us would not be here today.
Unintended scientific discoveries often prove more fascinating than those made on purpose. Perhaps it’s the lure of serendipity, or the enticing possibility of changing the world for the better through nothing more than sheer happenstance. Either way, people everywhere are grateful that some enterprising individuals were fortunate enough to stumble into important medical breakthroughs - and had awareness enough to understand the implications of their discoveries.
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Penicillin was the most important accidental medical discovery. Thank Alexander Fleming for saving millions of lives!
But I’m allergic
@@leslietonn3181Fortunately, in 2023 there are many other types of antibiotics besides penicillin for your physician to prescribe.
@@leslietonn3181me too lol
I'm allergic so meh for myself lol
And to think that millions probably think it's a government conspiracy and won't use it.
We don't make mistakes we just have happy accidents. Said a guy that had some big hair.
I always loved his happy accidents.
I had a happy accident in my pants.
@@TheOfficialTarynTotsI’m a happy accident
When it comes to accidental life changing discoveries like this, I always find myself wondering two things: what kind of world would we be living in IF we had never made those discoveries, and what world are we missing out on because we HAVEN’T made an accidental discovery.
It's also sad to note that human kind is more adept at creating ways to kill one another than anything else. If we as a species, irrespective of race, religion, national origin, or any other qualifier you can possibly dream up, could unite and work as one toward a common goal of the betterment of all, there would be no limit to what we could achieve.
My grandmother ate a spoon of Vaseline every day for her whole life, starting as a child. She claimed that it helped her be “regular” and swore by it. She did live to be in her 90’s and was healthy her whole life.
Eeww! I can't even imagine how horrible that would be!😂😂😂😂
My grandma used it every day as a makeup remover; no matter what other cleansers were invented, it was the one she swore by :) I'm wondering how many other grandmothers there were with time-tested original uses there are!
I just bet it made her regular!
@@ingridfong-daley5899I'm not a grandmother (not even a mother) but I use Vaseline as a makeup remover- it's oil based so it works really well, and it's super cheap compared to actual makeup removers.
@@ingridfong-daley5899 I've used it to take off mascara and it isn't too bad. I think it's nourishing to your lashes too but I don't remember.
You left out a recent accidental medical discovery of a previously unknown part of the human body: the tubarial glands. They're actually a type of salivary gland that's associated with the sinuses. Before the discovery, anatomists had absolutely no idea they were there -- which is crazy considering the number of human dissections there have been.
Fun fact: in Spanish a pap smear is reffered to as a papanicolau. So, now I know where that word comes from.
Penicillin is a testament to the power of procrastination.
10:48 Warfarin was one of the most common prescription drugs that we dispensed when I was a medication aide.
The popular writer Agatha Christie also dispensed medication.
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination."
John Dewey
I remember the episode where Fonzie injected people’s hearts with various liquids for his unethical scientific experiments. That show got weird after the waterskiing episode.
Anthony Fonzie is the science!
This is why nobody talks about what happened to Richie's older brother Chuck.
Nasty business that...
Arthur Fonzerelli
And they really jumped the shark when they jumped the shark.
Great narration! Totally enjoy this channel 🙂
Hey what an interesting subject. Thanks for sharing.
Love how there’s a GUY in the bed during the Pap smear clip 🤣
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that
I guess if you're going to make a medical mistake, a major discovery would be a pleasant surprise to the usual outcome of a malpractice suit.
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Thanks for this! ⚕ #WeirdHistory #MedicalHistory #MedicalInventions #MedicalDiscoveries
Sildenaphil is still used as a heart medication, and a rather important one. My daughter was on it for her heart defect.
Yes, sildenafil and similar are used to treat pulmonary hypertension, which causes strain on the heart.
What kind of heart defect if you don't mind me asking. My one month old was just diagnosed with one
@@irideaunicorn1620 the medical term was double outlet right ventricle, with a hypoplastic left ventricle and parallel arteries. In simple terms she basically didn't have a left ventricle and both arteries came out of the right side and they were parallel instead of crossed. She ultimately had a genetic defect that was the cause. What was your little one diagnosed with?
@@hipp_katt oh wow... He has pulmonary peripheral stenosis, plus a whole in his heart
@@irideaunicorn1620the hole in the septum is called a PFO
0:41 I remember going through intense classes of Anatomy and Physiology one quarter.
One of the first topics was learning about the parts of the heart and its blood flow.
People frequently mix up science with technology. In reality, a substantial portion of discoveries, perhaps the majority, follows a technological path of trial and error rather than the traditional framework of observation-hypothesis-thesis-theory-experiment, and so on. Chance, wonder, randomness, and luck play a much larger role than people often realize.
Pedantic af
A+ video!
Fascinating video! Very grateful that we now have those medical advances!
Thx Mason, your Oops saved my life.
Weird bit of Vaseline info, ferrets love it, which is fantastic because ferrets can be felled by constipation.
Enjoy listening to you and enjoy this channel! Thank you for all awesome information!! 😊
I hate to be that guy but are you guys gonna bring back Timeline? I know its a metric shit ton of work but man I love that series.
Let's hear it for ol Hoffman! I really love your discovery!❤️
I was pretty pleased with it.
No surprise whatsoever that Vaseline derived from Rod Wax.
😅...
By the way...Julien Lennon as a child drew a picture and showed his dad, John. "What is it?" It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds. He liked that sentence so much he wrote the song.
The Voice sounds classier than ever. We ❤ The Voice!
I LOVED THE LSD DISCOVERY AND HOW THE DOCTOR EXPLAINED IT. 😂😂😂😂
Those were just excerpt. Like a good researcher. He noted all his experience in details.
As a kid I ended up once with one of those toys - a submarine or something - where you put two tablets inside and it goes up and down in the water. Like a baking powder sub, but with two different chemicals. I later was fooling around with them and figured out that whatever it is specifically that they make, the black sidewalk ants loved it, but didn't long survive their buffet.
What happens if a lawyer takes Viagra?
He gets a stiff neck.
I believe sildenafil was initially used to treat angina; the lower blood pressure helped facilitate that.
I got a pacemaker at the age of 26. Good times
Pace yourself
This one more than anything, I want the soundtrack for!
Honorable Mention to alchemy. It laid the groundwork for chemistry and created a hell of a lot of things.
Not bad for a science with a 100% failure rate.
😳😅
Vaseline is commonly used to cover sutured lacerations instead of bacitracin as it is equally effective, cheaper, and causes fewer allergic reactions.
Sildenafil is commonly used in the veterinary field to treat high blood pressure.
Rather, be lucky🍀... than good😏😁
The visuals that are being showed are more akin to the visuals one would have tripping off of DMT.
Thank You Albert Hoffman and Jerry Garcia
That Worcestershire Sauce is very intense and has a lot of spices...I would imagine it could make an excellent drink with the right concoction!
Yeah that Pap smear guy could have developed a less painful tool to do it with 🙃😊
Minoxidil was created as a hypertension medication. Instead, it was found to grow hair & it really works. I've been using it for years. Women suffer from hair thinning after menopause.
Can’t believe you didn’t mention the involvement of the moldy orange in the development of penicillin.
Even a blind hog will find an acorn.
Thanks, Patchy for my pacemaker.
I was blown away whenever they put a mechanical heart valve and two pigs valves. They also put a few coils in
Plus I'm on Coumadin
Great Video
I’ve made mistakes with unexpected downsides. Does that count.
Don't know so much about the other languages, but at least in Finnish we call the x-ray the Röntgen ray (also Röntgen radiation and the Röntgen device). It's probably the same in German.
Yes, it's the same in German. Cool to know you call it the same in Finnish!
And here I was lathering my feet up with Vaseline right before it's listed as 1 😂
8:16 - It wasn’t Hofmann’s 20th preparation, it was the 25th, hence the original name LSD-25. Duh.
I'm 35 years old and never in my life had I heard that there was a sandwich involved anywhere in the penicillin story lol
Thank you mister cookies for indirectly inventing my neurostimulator.
As far as I know, I have no relation to Albert Hofmann.
That is an unusual spelling of Hofmann...might be a distant cousin of yours?
this mans voice is sold
Chesebrough, not to be confused with chesebro.
Pap smear, very necessary, but so uncomfortable.
you could say Greatbatch saved my life this week when I received an implant combo of pacemaker and defibrillator to stop sudden cardiac death.
So Cheseborough technically didn’t invent Vaseline. The farmers did.
Vaccines took their name from COWPOX…the word for “cow” in Latin is VACA…Thus “Vacaunos” (Latin and Spanish word for vaccines) was coined to represent not just the Vaccine made from Cowpox, but all of them
The term “vaccination “ comes from the medical term for cowpox, “vaccinia” from “vaca” for cow. Initially, pus from old smallpox blisters, thought to be weakened, was scratched into the skin to cause immunity, a process called inoculation.. Sometimes this caused fatal smallpox (e.g. Cotton Mather). Vaccination, originally scratching cowpox blister contents into the skin, was safer as cowpox, though related to smallpox, is not fatal. The current injection technology, came much later.
No mention of insulin? 🤔
Did they really censor "balls"?
Spoiler: all of them
75% lol
Greatbatch 😂
5:37 I remember those Petri dishes that we used for Microbiology, they would often be in stacks on the lab tables.
We don't make mistakes we have happy little accidents😂
0:01 When I was acquiring a Health Sciences Associate Degree at Southeast Community College (in Nebraska), my classes and experiences are very relevant to this video.
woah
I accidentally made the mistake of finding this video and enjoying it 😂
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Thinking about a To-Go or Delivery Medical Cuisine for medical professions*†...while watching this Weird History video!
* Inspired from the Weird History videos about the Medical industry and my own experiences.
† Getting food for breaks and meals is often a challenge is the fast and challenging medical field.
4:56 It is crazy how influential penicillin (an antibiotic) is in the health care field.
Doctors constantly prescribe antibiotics today.
I really should listen to crazy stuff people tell me. In a few years I could learn from it and win a nobel prize.
If every invention that started with hearing a problem and fixing it (like Vaseline) was considered an accident , everything would be
Wasn't dialysis also an accident? I remember reading a while ago that someone inventeded it to recycle car oil as its original purpose.
I remember in the 70's I had strepthroat and doctor gave me penicillin, but when my daughter had it in the 80's doctor gave her antibiotics.
Penicillin is an antibiotic, but by the 1980’s, resistance was developing, so alternatives were needed.
In Spanish that exactly the name we use for Pap smear. His last name.
Fun fact:
Röntgen did not call his discovery “x-rays”. In German speaking countries, the radiation is to this day called: “Röntgen Strahlung” and “to get a x-ray” = “ein Röntgenbild machen”.
Only the English speaking countries call it: x-ray. I don’t know why ….😘
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I never want to hear you say "Aaaayyee!" again.
That was pretty annoying.
@@vickielawson3114 hahaha!
Befow we get started
Flies in the vaseline we are, sometimes it blows my mind, keep getting stuck here all the time...
“Doctor? No. The guy that greases my pump jacks says I should put this on my cuts and sores.”
Gotta say... finding out how a PAP smear was 'accidentally discovered' peaked my interest.
Wasn't as fun as I hoped.
I this narrator, keep him.
Penicillin was used in ancient times even if they didn't know why the mold help heal
Too bad I’m allergic to penicillin!
As a woman, the Pap smear is not the simplest to go through….😾💚😺
he said it was simple, he said nothing about it being comfortable. being a male I have never had one (obviously), but I do have female friends all of which describe it as being extremely uncomfortable, some even saying painful.
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Conducting a Weird History experiment!
Put Worcestershire Sauce* in a tasting cup (which is a measuring cup) and will taste it...during this Weird History video!
Worcestershire Sauce was created by accident!
* Inspired by the Weird History video title "Major Medical Discoveries That Happened By Mistake"
Good thing the first person to get that contrast wasn’t a diabetic. They wouldn’t have known what to do.
8:19 Our laboratory wasn't as colorful as that one, but the setup for our Chemistry class at Southeast Community College was similar to that.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds is about a picture John's son drew 🙄
Just incredible that something a milk maid casually said turned out to inspire a small pox vaccination!
9:56 I remember Chicken Pox Parties, where parents would gather their children together so they would be exposed to chicken pox and gain an immunity to it.
There is a children's book called The Chicken Pox Party by Sharon Dennis Wyeth.
1:29 I used to use watch Khan Academy videos (channel on RUclips) to identify and understand parts of Anatomy and Physiology for my community college classes.
They would use easily identifiable images like that one.
Wasn’t anesthesia discovered by accident?
In Spanish we call it papanicolaou
WTF kind of soldering iron is that guy using? It looks like he's soldering a small gauge wire using a huge ass iron. So impractical lol