November 30, 2005

Soviet Animal Revival Experiments conducted in the the USSR in the 1940's. This is sort of like flatliners for dogs. [WARNING: disturbing Quicktime video]

For the amount of information I discovered on pop-culture sites and the lack therof on medical sites coupled with the appearance of J.B.S. Haldane, I didn't know what to think about this. Until I found Bryukhonenko at Pub Med. I also found a MetaFilter variety in my wanderings, as well.

posted by InsolentChimp 18 years ago
  • Can't bring myself to click.
  • I clicked and found this to be disturbing, yet fascinating at the same time. I may be just a tad sick.
  • Man's best friend... So what strange visions did those canines have after waking up? Kiefer Sutherland haunting them in their waking hours? Julia Roberts' ginormous smile looming over them like an angry master? The ghost of Batman and Robin yet to come in the form of a leather-clad Joel Schumacher? It makes me shiver just to think of what those dogs went through.
  • What path said... I can't even look. I was an EMT for 7 years in my bulletproof teens and twenties and I saw it all, but the older I get, the less I can tolerate stuff like this, especially cruelty to animals. I haven't quite gone vegan, but I could never hunt or even fish anymore. I even capture bugs and set them free outside. I guess I'm getting soft in my old age.
  • Man that was pretty freaky. But the dog head didn't look quite right to me. It sort of jumped as if it still had muscles connected to the torso. Maybe I'm just trying to think that, to stop from crying, if it's real it's too cruel to contemplate. Then again I'm the only vegi that I know that isn't against vivisection in principle.
  • Yeah, this is a video I won't be clicking on. I'm already pretty disturbed by the fact that there's no sandwich bread downstairs, so I don't think I am going to add in an animal's suffering.
  • good for you OOS.
  • --15:31:45-- http://www.archive.org/stream/Experime1940/Experime1940_256kb.mp4 => `Experime1940_256kb.mp4' Resolving www.archive.org... done. Connecting to www.archive.org[207.241.224.241]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 15:33:16 ERROR -1: No data received.
  • I do the same thing with bugs, OneOliveShort. Although, oddly enough, when I was a kid I used to freeze bees in the fridge and then bring them back to life by thawing them out, don't tell beeswacky. randomaction, I don't want to get too graphic, but I think I have to. If you didn't want to watch the link, don't read the rest of this paragraph. I believe the neck of the dog was severed in a way so that it can still articulate, it isn't really that "practical" to sever the head above the neck. It may have been restrained at some point so that the artificial heart didn't disconnect. For the record, this isn't vivisection, the dog in the end was brought back to life after having a saline solution as surrogate blood to preserve the living tissue. The consecutive links aren't graphic or disturbing. And I think one of them explains that the experiments were conducted on dogs "that had drowned." I don't think it mentions if the drownings were intentional. Yeah, it's monstrous, but the results of the experiments saved the lives of countless soldiers in Military hospitals in WWII thanks to the discoveries in blood surrogates. I think the ethical weight may have shifted post hoc, but not propter.
  • Anyone have a direct link for download? I couldn't get the streaming fast enough to not stutter.
  • Did you try the site from the MeFi post, techsmith? I believe you can download there.