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No one can predict what a scientific discovery will lead to. Mustard gas for example: it's absolutely horrible, it goes through your clothes, burns your skin, your eyes and your mucous membranes to make you suffer for weeks... If it doesn't kill you. However, it's thanks to this that we developed the first chemotherapies. Because we will realize that the victims see their white blood cell count greatly decrease. The idea then arose to use mustard gas to treat lymphomas, a type of cancer that affects white blood cells. It was during the Second World War that Louis Goodman and Alfred Gilman began to do the first tests with a less toxic version... And bam, the first chemical treatment against cancer was born. To join the team: https://forms.gle/Qwspc8VUvsoEfTF7A 00:00 Introduction 0:58 Alfred Nobel 4:28 Fritz Haber Explosives & Fertilizers 7:50 Thomas Midgley Jr. ▼▼ SOCIAL MEDIA ▼▼ ???? TikTok / trasheurs ???? Instagram / trasheurs.videos ???? Facebook / trasheurs.videos ???? Discord / discord ???? 7 other Trash channels to discover here: / trashgame