Before their discoveries saw the light, these scientists risked their lives in exchange for proving their theories and testing with inventions before they were officially announced. In this article, learn about 10 dangerous discoveries that their inventors have personally experienced, exposing themselves to many dangers.
Jonas Salk
Dr. Jonas Salk, while researching the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, discovered a possible vaccine against polio. When Salk needed healthy people for human tests, Salk himself and his entire family volunteered to conduct the vaccine experiment.
The experiment paid off, and everyone showed positive results on polio antibodies. Salk refused to grant the vaccine a patent and did not receive any financial reward for its discovery so that any vaccine company would be able to develop it, and it's available to everyone.
David Pritchard
In 2004, after years of research in Papua New Guinea, immune biologist David Pritchard wanted to test the results of his research that some parasites could improve immune system defense against allergies, and possibly the most serious autoimmune diseases. Pritchard transformed his body into the first test specimen and injected himself with 50 hookworms under his skin. It was concluded that only 10 hookworms were necessary for future test targets.
John Paul Stapp
Air Force officer and surgeon John Paul Stapp has the nickname "The Fastest Man on Earth". In his research, Stapp repeatedly tied himself to a missile sleigh, nicknamed “Gee Whiz,” and was pushed forward at a speed close to the speed of sound. Then it suddenly presses the brakes to determine the ability of the human body to withstand the sudden slowdown.
Because of his dangerous experience, Stapp underwent numerous fractures and retinal detachment temporarily, and he concluded that the human body could withstand 45 grams of forwarding motion with a proper harness.
August Bier
In the early twentieth century, August Bier discovered spinal anesthesia. His method included injecting cocaine into the cerebrospinal fluid. To test its efficacy, Bier incorporated his body into it. During the experiment, Bier made a culture in his back to the spine and made the anesthetic fluid leak into it.
Bier's assistant also had a role in the experiment. Once the aide had been properly numbed, Bier had beaten his legs, beat him and burned, and several other causes of pain. The assistant did not feel anything as evidence of the drug's success in working.
Werner Forssmann
In 1929 in the cellar of the Eberswalde Hospital in Germany, Werner Forssmann, the surgical resident inserted a ureteral catheter tube into his elbow and inserted it through a vein that reached his heart. Use the mirror to see his course of action. Then he took an x-ray on his chest (on the left) to determine the catheter that had already reached the right atrium.
Instead of receiving praise, Forssmann was condemned. This refusal led him to give up his work as a cardiologist and urologist, but he later received a Nobel Prize in 1956.
Nathaniel Kleitman
In 1938, sleep researcher Nathaniel Kleitman and his assistant set up the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. They were trying to manipulate their sleep cycles to adopt on 28 hours. At constant temperatures and without natural light, conditions in the cave looked perfect. After 32 days, the Kleitman assistant managed to adapt, but Kleitman failed. However, the results of the experiment helped advance their study of daily rhythms.
Sir Humphry Davy
While at the Bristol Aerobic Medical Institute, Humphry Davy studied gases. Through a series of self-experiments with nitrous oxides, Davy devised what is today known as laugh gas. Although his initial attempts were to reproduce the pleasant effects of opium and alcohol, Davy eventually recommended using nitrous oxide as an anesthetic. His recommendation was not heeded until long after his death, but nitrous became an instant hit in modern parties.
Kevin Warwick
During the late 1990s, Kevin Warwick's team surgically implanted a silicon slide in his elbow for an experiment known as the Cyborg Project. With this chip, Warwick's nervous system was monitored by a computer system. According to his website, the neural interface allowed him to "operate doors, lamps, heaters, and other computers without lifting a finger."
Albert Hoffman
Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman was researching an ergot fungus drug company when he discovered lysergic acid. His initial tests were inconclusive, but Hoffman decided to retest a complex version of the acid. In April 1943 Hoffman took 25/1000 grams of a substance he called LSD-25 in his laboratory, the results were various hallucinations are caused by LSD, known today as the most dangerous hallucination vaccine.
Stubbins Ffirth
After seeing the devastating yellow fever epidemic in 1793, Ffirth assumed that viral hemorrhagic disease was not contagious. To prove his thesis, he tested the disease on himself. This included, but is not limited to, pouring vomiting that carries the disease in his open wounds or on his eyeballs, and drinking infected black vomiting.
Ffirth later rubbed blood and urine on his body as well, but eventually avoided infection, and declared that yellow fever was not contagious. It turns out that yellow fever was contagious, but only through blood transfusion by a mosquito bite.
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