The subject was given an injection of Thanatoxin, a drug that produces violent anguish....

Hans Vergerus: The subject was given an injection of Thanatoxin, a drug that produces violent anguish. What you will see is someone subjected to unbearable agony. Here you see him just as he's given the injection. You notice that he is quite balanced and is laughing and joking. An unusually nice boy, incidentally. He was a student of political science at the university. We are now at the condition of dread, which is getting worse and worse. In a few moments he'll commit suicide. Watch carefully. It happens without any warning. He picks up the revolver. You can't see it properly. Now you can see it. Then he puts it in his mouth. The gun is not loaded, of course. That student really did shoot himself a few days later, although the effects of the Thanatoxin had completely worn off. Your brother, Max, met with the same misfortune. By the way, he was one of our best assistants. He was really interested in our experiments. He wanted to try out the Thanatoxin. I advised him not to, but he insisted