A Deadly Mistake That Led to Safer Medicine | Elixir Sulfanilamide

In the 1930s, a mistake that cost over a hundred lives helped usher in a new era of safer medicine. We're conducting a survey of our viewers! If you have time, please give us feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SciShowSurvey2017 Hosted by: Stefan Chin ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطا الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Bella Nash, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/708502/elixirs-diluents-passage-1938-federal-food-drug-cosmetic-act?volume=122&issue=6&page=456 https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/35714/title/The-Elixir-Tragedy--1937/ https://www.fda.gov/aboutfda/whatwedo/history/productregulation/sulfanilamidedisaster/ https://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/83/8325/8325prontosil.html https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/sulfanilamide#section=Top http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/infectious-diseases/bacteria-and-antibacterial-drugs/sulfonamides https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109405/ https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1939/domagk-facts.html https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/flemingpenicillin.html#us-penicillin-production https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19586352 https://calpoison.org/news/diethylene-glycol-poisoning https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/diethylene_glycol#section=Top Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elixir_Sulfanilamide.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sulfanilamida-3D.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gerhard_Domagk_nobel.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tube_of_Prontosil_tablets,_Germany,_1935-1950_Wellcome_L0057805.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prontosil.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diethylene_glycol_3D_ball.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haiti_medications_contaminated_with_DEG.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1933_-_American_Medicine_Company.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_World_War_II_first_aid_kit.jpg