In 1957, Karl P. Schmidt, a snake master and herpetologist, was working at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL. On September 25, he was exploring a 30-inch venomous snake that was conveyed to the gallery; his objective was to recognize the new snake.
This video by Science Friday's Tom McNamara describes how Schmidt documented his final hours. The details are bizarre and tragic.
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Hours before he kicked the bucket, Schmidt was requested that see a specialist, yet he won't. He trusted that it would "agitate the side effects." He was a researcher, inquisitive and intensive, until the minute he passed on. He essentially needed to recognize the snake and have a point by point (though lethal) record of what the chomp's venom would do.
He might have taken "in the name of science" a little too far.
Tags: #snake #museum #venomous
This video by Science Friday's Tom McNamara describes how Schmidt documented his final hours. The details are bizarre and tragic.
Science Friday
Hours before he kicked the bucket, Schmidt was requested that see a specialist, yet he won't. He trusted that it would "agitate the side effects." He was a researcher, inquisitive and intensive, until the minute he passed on. He essentially needed to recognize the snake and have a point by point (though lethal) record of what the chomp's venom would do.
He might have taken "in the name of science" a little too far.
Tags: #snake #museum #venomous
