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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:15:54 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   #wikifinds

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     John Kapri (johnkapri@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:21:51 JST John Kapri

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     @whitequark Always amazed that we actually made it through the 20th century...

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:21:52 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @johnkapri well this guy definitely didn't!!

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     Whalejuicesmoothie (bonafried@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:22:50 JST Whalejuicesmoothie

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     @whitequark yes, sadly the people in the Southern United States *never got this memo* because the doctor who discovered this was considered a Yankee, and they suffered from hookworm as a result *for decades* after the cure was found. This lead to the average southerner loosing 10-20 iq points, AND IS WHY TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT NOW.

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     Daniil Baturin (dmbaturin@functional.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:32:43 JST Daniil Baturin

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     • Billy O'Neal

     @malwareminigun @whitequark Carbon tetrachloride is too, well, halogenated to be flammable, alas.
     But... did he drink carbon tetrachloride? And nearly got a Nobel prize for _drinking carbon tetrachloride_?

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:32:43 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @dmbaturin @malwareminigun yes. yes, he did https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/items/show/8197

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     Billy O'Neal (malwareminigun@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:32:44 JST Billy O'Neal

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     @whitequark *Explosions and Fire bursts in with a tye die shirt on*

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:34:22 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @dmbaturin @malwareminigun i wonder what this illness was

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:35:22 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @dmbaturin @malwareminigun terrifying

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:37:01 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @dmbaturin @malwareminigun ok actually it looks like he was also the one to point out the toxicity and replace it

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:37:57 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @dmbaturin @malwareminigun all quotes from https://sci-hub.se/10.2307/3272439

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     Peter Bindels (dascandy@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:43:19 JST Peter Bindels

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     @whitequark Wasn't there also a guy who inserted something into his beating heart to take an X-ray of it, then to get fired for inserting that thing into his live beating heart, and then to get re-hired because that basically proves you can do that, and winning something like a nobel prize?

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Forssmann

     Yeah.

     In 1929, while working in Eberswalde, he performed the first human cardiac catheterization. He ignored his department chief and persuaded the operating-room nurse in charge of the sterile supplies, Gerda Ditzen, to assist him. She agreed, but only on the promise that he would do it on her rather than on himself. However, Forssmann tricked her by restraining her to the operating table and pretending to locally anaesthetise and cut her arm whilst actually doing it on himself.... They walked some distance to the X-ray department on the floor below where under the guidance of a fluoroscope he advanced the catheter the full 60 cm into his right ventricular cavity. This was then recorded on X-ray film showing the catheter lying in his right atrium.[3]

     The head clinician at Eberswalde, although initially very annoyed, recognized Werner's discovery when shown the X-rays; ... once Sauerbruch saw his paper, he was dismissed for continuing without his approval.

     ... some major Nazi things happened here, and he got imprisoned into a PoW camp...

     During the time of his imprisonment, his paper was read by André Frédéric Cournand and Dickinson W. Richards. They developed ways of applying his technique to heart disease diagnosis and research. In 1954, he was given the Leibniz Medal of the German Academy of Sciences. In 1956, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Cournand, Richards, and Forßmann.[1]

     So yeah, kinda par for the course.