INVENTORS KILLED BY THEIR OWN INVENTIONS

Marie Curie

Bad luck, extreme courage, underestimation of danger: inventors’ life is not always paid back with success. There have been a few who we’ll always be remembered for their inventions, but there are some other we’ll remember because of their tragic deaths related to their own work.  Let’s see some.

HOW DO BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS WORK ?

FIRST ATTEMPTS

In 1881 a physician named William Halsted successfully carried out a blood transfusion injecting his blood in his sister Minnie who was dying for a hemorrhage after giving birth to her child. This was one of the few successful cases,      in which that was possible, because they had the same blood type (which is not guaranteed even among close relatives). One of the first experiments was made in 1667 by Jean Baptiste Denys,      who tested this practice on a man called Antoine Mauroy using the blood of a sheep to treat his psychosis.  At the first try everything seemed good,   but after the second one he started to run a fever, had a pain in his lower back and a sting in his arm, then he urinated a thick black liquid.