Raised like a pitbull, My heart pumps nitro

Nitroglycerin is still used as heart medication today

Now almost anyone is treated with nitro.

> A few months before his death in 1896, Alfred Nobel was prescribed nitroglycerin for this heart condition, writing to a friend: "Isn’t it the irony of fate that I have been prescribed nitro-glycerin, to be taken internally! They call it Trinitrin, so as not to scare the chemist and the public." The medical establishment also used the name "glyceryl trinitrate" for the same reason.

I see in the other comments that the Nobel prizes have accomplished their intended task of masking the name of the man who invented such a powerful explosive.

It is. I think this fact is notable because Nobel invented (or popularized? I'd have to look it up) TNT

Okay, Nobel didn’t invent nitroglycerin. Dynamite was Nobel’s invention to make handling nitroglycerin safer. He created the Nobel Peace Price because his fear that he made a great weapon. None of that makes this as interesting as he created dynamite after his brother died from nitroglycerin explosion. What killed one brother kept the other brother alive a bit longer, and a legend.

Okay. It was interesting to me notwithstanding everything you said.

Nitroglycerin is one of those strange molecules that is really good at two completely unrelated things. Powerful primary high explosive, also an excellent vasodilator drug.

Dynamite. He invented dynamite. That's a way of stabilizing nitroglycerin so it won't explode if you look at it funny.

TNT is a different explosive that's inherently more stable than nitroglycerin, so it doesn't need extra stabilization.

My mistake. AC/DC led me astray.

So he went out with a bang!

Till we blow like nitroglycerin, we sip that cheap brew that tastes like Listerine - Jay Z

I was given it once in the ER. Went in for high troponin levels found in a blood test, by my GP's recommendation. When that stuff wore off, OMG! Horrible headache, dizzy, I was a complete mess. Nobody warned me about the after effects.