Injecting Cocaine Into Your Spine (For Science)

This is 100% genuine archive footage from the Old England Journal of Medicine circa 1901, concerning Dr August Bier's infamous study examining cocaine as a spinal anaesthetic. Do not try this at home. I can actually do a better German accent, which is basically just me doing a Werner Herzog impression, but I really tried hard to make this one appropriate for the period. Unfortunately I think it's just come out really stilted and monotonous but hey ho. Special thanks to Leon from ‪@neoexplains‬ who kindly recorded an old school German accent for me, and ‪@SabineHossenfelder‬ for her tips. If you're not a fan of me hamfisting accents, or facial topiary, you might want to skip another video coming soon. The backgrounds are the Royal College of Physicians in London, and the Jesuit Library in Cologne. Rejected titles: A fine crack, That time doctors tested cocaine on themselves, That time a German doctor injected cocaine into his subordinate and beat the living sh*t out of him. References: Translated from Bier, August: Versusche ueber Cocainisirung des Rueckenmarkes. Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Chirurgie, 1899; 51: 361-8 https://zenodo.org/record/1428422#.YM... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... ----------------- More Medlife Crisis: http://www.medlifecrisis.co.uk   / medcrisis      / @medlife2   https://watchnebula.com/medlifecrisis   / medcrisis     / medlifecrisis