Quinine and the Birth of the Dye Industry

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  • čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
  • As we just learned, the 19th century brought about the practice of isolating compounds with medicinal properties from their natural sources, such as a variety of alkaloids. But one such alkaloid deserves its own chapter in this story, and that is quinine. This compound is found in the bark of the Cinchona trees native to Peru, and was discovered to effectively combat malaria. Eventually, the compound responsible for this property was isolated, and named quinine, after the local name for the tree itself, "quina-quina". Given that a supply of this substance was integral for any empire intending to expand into Africa and other territories, and that the bark itself was limited, great effort was put towards synthesizing quinine. It was futile in the 19th century, as the comprehension of chemistry just wasn't there yet. But the demand led to a series of fortuitous accidents, first by William Perkin and his discovery of revolutionary synthetic dyes, and then the development of the dye industry which eventually gave rise to the modern pharmaceutical industry. Let's get the full story now!
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Komentáře • 142

  • @allak8294
    @allak8294 Před 3 lety +39

    OMG PROF. DAVE , PLEASE DO VIDEOS ON PERFUME CHEMISTRY ❤️❤️❤️❤️

    • @russellzauner
      @russellzauner Před 3 lety +3

      Prof Dave: *teaches essential oil extraction*
      Internet: *cannabis has entered the chat*

    • @prakashdaga
      @prakashdaga Před 3 lety

      @@russellzauner ok

  • @sciencewolf7775
    @sciencewolf7775 Před 3 lety +27

    Chemistry! Drugs are cool to learn about, as they mix biology and chemistry. Thanks Professor Dave!

    • @rezzer7918
      @rezzer7918 Před 2 měsíci

      Thus the related discipline, Biochemistry.

  • @Pugetwitch
    @Pugetwitch Před 3 lety +10

    I have autism/Asperger's. this topic is one of my special interests along with the German corporate mergers that occured within the same industry. I really appreciate you for creating this content! I subscribed upon seeing the title and look forward to watching more.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 3 lety +3

      Much more about the emerging German pharma biz to come!

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 2 lety

      Just continuing with this series as I have been, slowly but surely.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 2 lety

      Well my father writes the scripts for this series, and someone else does the animation, so if you call that a collaboration then yes that will continue.

    • @sakeena_2147
      @sakeena_2147 Před rokem

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains sir plz make a video on reserpine drug....

    • @stevensmith4752
      @stevensmith4752 Před 22 dny

      I'm also on the spectrum

  • @josephbrennan370
    @josephbrennan370 Před 3 lety +28

    Sure it's a Friday. I may as well learn about the birth of the dye industry.

    • @UmVtCg
      @UmVtCg Před 3 lety +4

      You've learnt more than that

    • @Pugetwitch
      @Pugetwitch Před 3 lety

      I thought I was just going to expand upon things that I had already known, but instead this video enlightened me to a ton of historical context!

  • @joelmonsion1639
    @joelmonsion1639 Před 2 lety +3

    Hope he doesnt abandon this series, its so good

  • @astroadventures3559
    @astroadventures3559 Před 3 lety +26

    I really enjoy the stories when you start talking about just the chemical makeup and breaking down the different ways to create chemical makeups I don't really follow that well as I'm not too big into chemistry. But when you tell one of your stories involving chemistry I absolutely love it. I wish I understood more about chemistry so I can enjoy the other videos more as well. But in any case I just want to thank you for your hard work and time spent making these videos, I really enjoy them!

    • @sly3575
      @sly3575 Před 3 lety +4

      Some of his other videos are great tutorials. I've increased my knowledge of chemistry leaps and bounds with them!

  • @lindaedvardsson4218
    @lindaedvardsson4218 Před 3 lety +9

    Wow..,🥳🙌🏼... Thank You, Prof. Dave❣️ .. 👋🏼😌🇸🇪

  • @jacobdiller8140
    @jacobdiller8140 Před 3 lety +6

    This was awesome.

  • @eugeniebreida1583
    @eugeniebreida1583 Před 3 lety +8

    Perfect presentation. Riveting and relaxing simultaneously, to me your delivery style brings on very pleasant chemical reactions. (Donating!)

  • @alsilverman5084
    @alsilverman5084 Před 3 lety +11

    Dave thank you! Really interesting, and timely since I’ve been watching the series about opioid addiction “Crime of the Century” the facts surrounding that are terrifying.

  • @glennpearson9348
    @glennpearson9348 Před 3 lety +10

    What an incredible adventure you are taking us through, Professor Dave! It really is amazing how many advancements in science and mathematics happened entirely by accident. I guess it really does go to show that "The harder you practice, the luckier you become."

    • @archivist17
      @archivist17 Před 3 lety

      Have you heard of the series 'Connections', presented by James Burke? It shows a lot of the links between discoveries and inventions.

  • @WmLatin
    @WmLatin Před 3 lety +4

    This video deserves a million views!

  • @xModerax
    @xModerax Před 2 lety +1

    The quality of this video is stellar. Well done!

  • @11kele
    @11kele Před 3 lety +2

    This channel deserves much more views and subscribers...

  • @rikiyul
    @rikiyul Před 4 měsíci

    Very happy I found you.🎉
    You are super awesome.

  • @Lou.B
    @Lou.B Před 2 lety +2

    My first viewing of your work, and I love it! (especially the humor at 9:50) New subscriber! Keep it up!

  • @pansepot1490
    @pansepot1490 Před 3 lety +6

    I don’t know if the original mauvine was actually light resistant but unfortunately most synthetic dies aren’t. They discolor with light, purple red and yellow tones in particular. As an artist working in oil and acrylic I learned that the hard way. Hell, had the same problem even with house paint.
    Fascinating video. 👍

  • @GREATLORDPOOH
    @GREATLORDPOOH Před 9 měsíci +1

    Thank you for extracting thw knowledge of the printed word into a format more easily absorbed by those with leatning challenges

  • @Christian-ve1wi
    @Christian-ve1wi Před 3 lety +1

    Great content as always thanks Professor Dave.

  • @funnymonke2275
    @funnymonke2275 Před 3 lety +3

    This is a very cool video. Keep up the amazing lessons!

  • @jeroenzomer7516
    @jeroenzomer7516 Před 3 lety +1

    Very, very interesting. Thank you!

  • @stellareid2993
    @stellareid2993 Před 10 dny

    Sensational Dave !!!!!!

  • @markshort9098
    @markshort9098 Před 3 lety +4

    Professor Dave awsome vid as always 👍

  • @davew6949
    @davew6949 Před 3 lety +5

    Hoffman may have been wrong, because he was working with incorrect theoretical tools, but he still stepped forward, attempting to produce new results, RECORDING those results and adding to knowledge in this way.

  • @vivianavilchis3186
    @vivianavilchis3186 Před 3 lety

    thank you for these awesome videos

  • @full_regalia8649
    @full_regalia8649 Před 3 lety

    Great video!!

  • @backstreetfan2887
    @backstreetfan2887 Před 3 lety

    very good information

  • @Atlas6355_
    @Atlas6355_ Před 3 lety

    Excellent! Thanks

  • @maya.amro26
    @maya.amro26 Před rokem

    Dr shaimaa fayez in our AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY used your whole video as lecture and put it into PowerPoint slides thank you

  • @alexstewart9747
    @alexstewart9747 Před 3 lety

    Very interesting. Thank you.

  • @graceisawesome539
    @graceisawesome539 Před 2 lety

    HOW AM I ONLY JUST NOW DISCOVERING THIS SIDE OF PROFESSOR DAVE’S CHANNEL!?!

  • @oddviews
    @oddviews Před 3 lety

    I was transfixed by this remarkable account of SCIENCE, influencing the world in so many important ways

  • @kemalkemal9130
    @kemalkemal9130 Před 2 lety

    Good job 👍

  • @dopa_explainz0080
    @dopa_explainz0080 Před 3 lety +3

    Proud to be a chemistry student❤️

    • @willimasjohanson9926
      @willimasjohanson9926 Před 3 lety

      I contracted herpes' I was told there is no Herpes cure except treatment to control it. I totally lost hope. All I could think was losing my life because it was so embarrassing to have this virus, few weeks ago I read about a possible natural cure which was guaranteed. And I ordered the treatment after some weeks I got 100% cure. Now I'm so excited to share this testimony thanks Dr okougbo Email:dr.okougboherbalhome@gmail.com.

  • @lindaedvardsson4218
    @lindaedvardsson4218 Před 3 lety +1

    Cool.. quinine is amazing but artemisin helped us overhand of this disease.. thus..malaria is still like a big bleeding, infectious(🙄) sore in our world. I hope We can use all our knowledge We HAD to take in the pandemic story too.. Then We start talking. This is in ALL ways so interesting and opens up so much.. 😐.. Thank You for another one incredible and well done vid in all of its aspects, Prof. Dave.. 👋🏼😌🇸🇪

  • @mohammedal-taie8696
    @mohammedal-taie8696 Před 3 lety

    Really good

  • @FreemanVashier
    @FreemanVashier Před 3 lety

    Great content

  • @GCharlesLangisChip
    @GCharlesLangisChip Před 2 lety +1

    Hey professor Dave I'm a regular visitor to your content. I think it's good stuff. At any rate I was watching a video by the state of Washington on a one pot synthesis and I was wondering if you were the chemist ?

  • @adilalbayati2874
    @adilalbayati2874 Před 3 měsíci

    You are the best bro

  • @osinachiihediohanma6549
    @osinachiihediohanma6549 Před 2 lety +1

    This is Great! I enjoyed every bit of it. Your presentation style is awesome. Was looking for a perfect introduction to Pharmacology. Please where are the remaining videos.. not produced yet?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 2 lety +2

      Sorry these are very slow to produce as the animator is very busy but there will be about 20 more over time!

  • @RedPhantom307
    @RedPhantom307 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I was forced to watch this video in a high school class and it was made into homework

  • @LiborTinka
    @LiborTinka Před 3 lety +1

    Extraction of quinine from Cinchona bark was always my planned hobby project, not for its pharmaceutical properties, but for its intense blue fluorescence.

  • @psionic111
    @psionic111 Před rokem

    14:32 And by the end of the 19th century, the dye market was "saturated"... well played, sir, well played. ;)

  • @oscarappleby2085
    @oscarappleby2085 Před 3 lety

    Hi bro big fan

  • @VoidHalo
    @VoidHalo Před 18 dny

    This is interesting. I've only really been familiar with azo dyes in the past. And dyer's wode to a lesser extent.

  • @s0urfru1t
    @s0urfru1t Před 2 lety

    Could you make the time line available for printing?!???!

  • @tosoledo
    @tosoledo Před 2 lety +1

    I would like to know what book you use to make this video series? I want to learn more about he history of medicine.

    • @vittoriof4871
      @vittoriof4871 Před 2 lety

      No books, mostly specialized literature. Many chemistry and pharmacy journals publish historical accounts, which are always good sources of well-researched information.

  • @fromaggio7654
    @fromaggio7654 Před 3 lety

    Humble beginnings

  • @UltraRik
    @UltraRik Před 3 lety

    an ENTIRE video where Dave doesn't call anyone 'idiotic'? impossible!!!

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 3 lety +4

      I have 1,000+ academic tutorials, bud. Familiarize yourself with my channel a bit.

    • @UltraRik
      @UltraRik Před 3 lety +2

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains 1000+?!? these are really well made, youtube seems to only recommend the beef

  • @asylumskp4391
    @asylumskp4391 Před 3 lety +1

    I swear half of the knowledge we know of wouldn't exist without drug use

  • @saucer1017
    @saucer1017 Před 3 lety +3

    Thank you Chemistry Jesus you have saved me once again

    • @willimasjohanson9926
      @willimasjohanson9926 Před 3 lety

      I contracted herpes' I was told there is no Herpes cure except treatment to control it. I totally lost hope. All I could think was losing my life because it was so embarrassing to have this virus, few weeks ago I read about a possible natural cure which was guaranteed. And I ordered the treatment after some weeks I got 100% cure. Now I'm so excited to share this testimony thanks Dr okougbo Email:dr.okougboherbalhome@gmail.com.

  • @sakeena_2147
    @sakeena_2147 Před rokem

    Hello sir plz make a video on reserpine drug........✌️

  • @ajhieb
    @ajhieb Před 3 lety +1

    James Burke would be proud.

  • @taylorlibby7642
    @taylorlibby7642 Před 3 lety +3

    Quinine is why gin and tonics w lime are the perfect health drink.

    • @donchristie420
      @donchristie420 Před 3 lety +3

      Yup- Tanqueray in particular😉

    • @taylorlibby7642
      @taylorlibby7642 Před 3 lety +2

      @@donchristie420 I've been drinking the Tanqueray Rangpur lately. Highly recommended. 👍

    • @MarvinMonroe
      @MarvinMonroe Před 3 lety

      Ehh almost all tonic water nowadays has basically zero quinine. Few years ago searched for a one that had decent levels. I love straight tonic water. It's like bitter Sprite

  • @core6108
    @core6108 Před 3 lety +2

    will you make a zoology tutorial professor ?

  • @adissentingopinion848
    @adissentingopinion848 Před 2 lety

    14:30 I heard that. Now I will give you one and a half chuckles. Ha h-

  • @frozenjoe6313
    @frozenjoe6313 Před 20 dny

    Ah, not to be offensive , but there is a book , dated about 1965 written by Norman Taylor I think entitled " plant drugs that changed the world,"" and this book gives a very important different history of " Chinchona Bark ", Most notably the only high quinine yielding chinchona trees found after many years searching was the " Markham Trees" grown by the Dutch, With someone named " ledger" involved, resultd in trees producing bark containing at least 20 % quinine content, and higher., All other Cinchona trees produced bark contained 1 to 3% quinine content at best . The Dutch Quinine Monopoly was dominant worldwide and strategically critical for all nations especially during ww11. Please find and read that book, it gives a very exact history not found anywhere else, and it should be noted malaria has 3 types of the disease, which results in multi millions of deaths worldwide, yearly,.. even to current days.. Malaria is still a tremendous killer, with no end in sight............ Joseph Henry , Boise Idaho.

  • @MatheusCampos-ex8et
    @MatheusCampos-ex8et Před 3 lety +1

    Would you mind giving a shot at debunking spiritism and mesmerism? Asking for a friend.

  • @UtraVioletDreams
    @UtraVioletDreams Před 3 lety +1

    I'm not sure if this type of soda is worldwide available. Here in the Netherlands it is. Quinine is added to Bitter Lemon to give it it's bitter taste.

    • @eugeniebreida1583
      @eugeniebreida1583 Před 3 lety +3

      I believe you’re describing what we call ‘tonic water’ in usa? We often enjoy it w/vodka, on ice!

    • @sjholmesbrown
      @sjholmesbrown Před 3 lety

      @@eugeniebreida1583 This is the origin of the classic 'Gin & Tonic' cocktail. The sweet gin was added to cover the bitter taste of quinine in the tonic water.

    • @eugeniebreida1583
      @eugeniebreida1583 Před 3 lety

      @@sjholmesbrown Thank you for the correction, g&t's are obviously infinitely superior to vodka tonics. I'd forgotten, as ethanol is no longer on my 'list', age has a way of defeating alcohol metabolism for some of us, sadly.
      And now I see that your lesson alerts me that gin was added to get medicinal quinine down, for the soldiers?? And similar? Interesting back history.

  • @whatsagoodusername823
    @whatsagoodusername823 Před 3 lety

    Unu per l'algoritmu

  • @wolfsbaneandnightshade2166

    My only complaint is the picture you chose for 1850 was WAY off. Like... nearly 75 years off minimum. Wigs like that stopped being fashionable by the 1790s

  • @Thaumius
    @Thaumius Před 3 lety

    The best inventions of all time have one thing in common, created accidentally.

  • @oitubeman1019
    @oitubeman1019 Před 3 lety +2

    Hello

  • @blakeanderson5011
    @blakeanderson5011 Před 9 měsíci

    Sorry David Blaine, I’m tryna watch Davex Plain.

  • @ImnotSteven3
    @ImnotSteven3 Před 3 lety

    I have a question professor of "science" is there a god or what will you say we as humans come from?

  • @1jotun136
    @1jotun136 Před rokem

    And Artemisia Aunnua has kicked it's butt and replaced it. Substantially easier to grow and simpler to extract.

  • @Aengus42
    @Aengus42 Před 3 lety +1

    Mauve rhymes with drove or trove.
    So mauveine is just mauve with long "een" sound after it. Mauveine. Much the way quinine sounds, with the "een" as a suffix.

    • @cambridgemart2075
      @cambridgemart2075 Před 3 lety

      Thank you for saving me from having to make the same explanation.

    • @Aengus42
      @Aengus42 Před 3 lety

      @@cambridgemart2075 My pleasure. I don't think they use "mauve" in the states. They just use "purple" for all those colours.
      And even if they did Webster & his "simplified English for semi literate cow pokes" would've... Oooh, difficult! "Move" is already a word. Well, that explains it's exclusion from his dictionary & thus it's disappearance from American English!
      I wonder if that's the case?

    • @eugeniebreida1583
      @eugeniebreida1583 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Aengus42 Not the case! Mauve is alive and well in the US, tho rarely a color favored by me ; )

    • @Aengus42
      @Aengus42 Před 3 lety +1

      @@eugeniebreida1583 Oh! Thank you. I was obviously wrong. Thank you for putting me straight.
      I discovered that "Mauve" comes from the French word for "Mallow". A wild flower here with purple petals. And the "ine" just means that the substance is a basic alkaloid So Mauveine is "the basic alkaloid that dyes things the same colour as the petals of the plant Malva sylvestris or Mallow".
      Words fascinate me! :o)

    • @eugeniebreida1583
      @eugeniebreida1583 Před 3 lety

      @@Aengus42 I love words as well, though as an architect I tend to wander more around my pencil's end in the act of sketching. However, being a gardener, I'm with you on the mallows, and can attest to missing the very popular 'barnaby'?? Malta sylvestris, which graced a couple outer corners of my former urban 'farmhouse'. SO beautiful.
      I loved the soft light pink petals which were so profuse and yet delicate, like large snowy butterflies lighting upon the vertical stems. Maybe you can find the real name 'barnaby' is your first clue! : )
      And thankfully I can say with confidence the petals' color is so comfortably distant from 'mauve' that the thought of 'it' would never enter my head! ; )

  • @miroslavzderic3192
    @miroslavzderic3192 Před 3 lety

    14:34 The dye market was saturated, eeeeeeeeeee good meme

  • @jalapenoandbanana
    @jalapenoandbanana Před 3 lety +1

    Color

  • @Rayzersword
    @Rayzersword Před 3 lety

    "When the marsh fever spreads from our swamps to our homes."

  • @rajalakshmisabarirajan2280

    First comment

  • @davew6949
    @davew6949 Před 3 lety +1

    The dye market was saturated. What you did there.... hmmmm!

  • @oddviews
    @oddviews Před 3 lety +1

    In ordinary daily life, how many folks here have found something thought to have been lost, but was found when looking for something else?

  • @aleisbarrett13
    @aleisbarrett13 Před 2 lety

    Ken ham alt timeline thumbnail

  • @Bruski1988
    @Bruski1988 Před 3 lety

    The standard American pronunciation of quinine is kwī-nīn, with the long I sound. Professor Dave is using the British pronunciation. Not wrong, but different from what I ever heard (and I heard a lot about malaria, since my father had contracted it on Guadalcanal).

    • @vittoriof4871
      @vittoriof4871 Před 3 lety +1

      True, but I have never heard the statement that the British pronunciation is "not wrong" vs. the American one. It is usually the other way around. Most people acknowledge that, in the English language, the English pronunciation is the standard one, but the American one can also be...acceptable.😊

    • @Bruski1988
      @Bruski1988 Před 3 lety

      @@vittoriof4871 Touche.

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    @SarahMohammedAli7 Před 3 lety

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    @tonystark6997 Před 3 lety

    Dot.

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  • @jorgehuamanmusic
    @jorgehuamanmusic Před měsícem

    Kwai-nine is how it's pronounced.

  • @troy-go8qk
    @troy-go8qk Před 3 lety

    w

  • @rebirth_mishap
    @rebirth_mishap Před 3 lety

    You pronounced A.D. wrong

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 3 lety +2

      Historians say CE.

    • @rebirth_mishap
      @rebirth_mishap Před 3 lety

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains and they too mispronounce A.D. Don't get me wrong, I love your work. You're one of my favorite CZcamsrs

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 3 lety +6

      I'm not sure how one can mispronounce letters.

    • @eugeniebreida1583
      @eugeniebreida1583 Před 3 lety

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains Me neither...and I would add it’s hard to find fault in your excellent research, and even better presentation. A Class, this one!

  • @rezzer7918
    @rezzer7918 Před 2 měsíci

    1. It's pronounced QUI-nine not qui-NINE. 2. It's pronounced NAPH-thyl-a-mine not naph-thyl-AM-ine.

  • @Rayzersword
    @Rayzersword Před 3 lety

    "Rather predictably, Europeans fucked everything up." XD

  • @rufusthehunalprophet6648

    Can't believe you used a picture of tea for caffeine. Sure, you're right in doing so, but I'm afraid I have to unsub.

  • @maxine3978
    @maxine3978 Před rokem

    4:06 classic europeans

  • @smizmar8
    @smizmar8 Před 2 lety

    The dye market was saturdated? haha... stop it

  • @lrdpacific3328
    @lrdpacific3328 Před 3 lety

    To everyone whos reading this i dont care about you just dont die

  • @mariooldani9545
    @mariooldani9545 Před rokem

    Gross.

  • @kishaandrea9533
    @kishaandrea9533 Před 3 lety

    First