stackyFACTSBasic lab safety was completely non-existent in the 1870s.
Basic lab safety was completely non-existent in the 1870s. A chemist studying coal tar derivatives went home for dinner without washing his hands. He bit into a dinner roll and noticed it was overwhelmingly, aggressively sweet. Instead of worrying he had fatally poisoned himself with industrial chemicals, he rushed back to the lab and enthusiastically tasted everything on his desk until he isolated the very first artificial sweetener.
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