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"Very well-researched and delivered in an engaging, breezy, wink-wink tone similar to that of Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg's Why Do Men Have Nipples?, this will likely be enjoyed equally by science buffs and casual aficionados of the curious. One of the finest science/history bathroom books of all time." -Kirkus Reviews |
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#5: The Isolated Head of a Dog
What could be more horrific than creating a two-headed dog? What about keeping the severed head of a dog alive apart from its body! Ever since the carnage of the French Revolution, when the guillotine sent thousands of severed heads tumbling into baskets, scientists had wondered whether it would be possible to keep a head alive apart from its body, but it wasn't until the late 1920s that someone managed to pull off this feat.
Soviet physician Sergei Brukhonenko developed a primitive heart-lung machine he called an "autojector," and with this device he succeeded in keeping the severed head of a dog alive. He displayed one of his living dog heads in 1928 before an international audience of scientists at the Third Congress of Physiologists of the USSR. To prove that the head lying on the table really was alive, he showed that it reacted to stimuli. Brukhonenko banged a hammer on the table, and the head flinched. He shone light in its eyes, and the eyes blinked. He even fed the head a piece of cheese, which promptly popped out the esophageal tube on the other end.
Brukhonenko's severed dog head became the talk of Europe and inspired the playwright George Bernard Shaw to muse, "I am even tempted to have my own head cut off so that I can continue to dictate plays and books without being bothered by illness, without having to dress and undress, without having to eat, without having anything else to do other than to produce masterpieces of dramatic art and literature."
[On YouTube: See Experiments in the revival of organisms.]
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Posted by josh in Erie, Pennsylvania on Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 06:09 PM
Oh i fucking hope that we humans go extinct some time soon. Preferably before we kill off all of the other species on our planet.
Posted by Dan in Sweden on Tue Sep 30, 2008 at 04:40 PM
Could this be any sicker?
I mean come on, poor dog, why use it as an experiment, they don't deserve such treatments you know.
what was that scientist thinking anyway?
Posted by Little Dog Bark Collars in United States on Mon Nov 03, 2008 at 11:39 AM
okay. some ppl wrote comments like wow or ah. but think about it. this is creepy. keeping a severd dogs head alive. im not the person that wants to yell because its inhuman or somthing but i still think this is creepy. this was 70 years ago. y cant we keep ppl alive today?
Posted by nathan on Sun Nov 09, 2008 at 05:56 PM
also to answer to Alexander and Beatrix, oxygen was pumped into the blood that they used to pump into the dog.
Posted by nathan on Sun Nov 09, 2008 at 05:59 PM
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