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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their new Statistics course. Sign up now and get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. A cure for leprosy eluded humans for thousands of years, until the pioneering chemistry work of Alice Ball. With her treatment, patients recovered enough to be discharged from the hospital by the hundreds. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Charles Copley, Jb Taishoff, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, LehelKovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- 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: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2682583/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC444418/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Parascandola/publication/277597573_Chaulmoogra_Oil_and_the_Treatment_of_Leprosy/links/58eb9e430f7e9b6b274b9200/Chaulmoogra-Oil-and-the-Treatment-of-Leprosy.pdf https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/02/alice-ball-leprosy-hansens-disease-hawaii-womens-history-science/ https://www.uhfoundation.org/impact/students/woman-who-changed-world https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-saponification-605959 https://www.chemistryworld.com/culture/alice-balls-treatment-for-leprosy/4011313.article?adredir=1 https://www.chemguide.co.uk/organicprops/esters/background.html https://zenodo.org/record/1496183#.X7Y2QWhKiUm http://www.northwesthawaiitimes.com/hnsept07.htm https://books.google.de/books?id=uomdpaHWaC0C&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&dq=alice+augusta+ball&redir_esc=y&hl=de#v=onepage&q=alice%20ball&f=false https://www.hawaii.edu/offices/bor/distinction.php?person=ball https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10318550/ Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leprosorium.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M_leprae_ziehl_nielsen2.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alicia_Augusta_Ball.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Presley_Ball_(1825-1904)_from_Willis_1993_from_Mumford_1980.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colleges_and_Universities_-_Cornell_University_-_one_of_the_dark_rooms_-_NARA_-_26425820.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Image-Hydnocarpus_annamensis_Flacourtiaceae.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chaulmoogra_oil_factory_of_Prasana_Kumar_Sen,_Chittagong._Ph_Wellcome_V0027698.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pouring_lye_into_water_to_make_soap.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dr_Isabel_Kerr_European_missionary_vaccinating_a_child_Wellcome_L0069838.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marotti.jpg


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