HEAD KEPT “ALIVE”

Evening Star, Issue 20062, 31 December 1928, Page 12

HEAD KEPT “ALIVE”

SOVIET DOCTORS' EXPERIMENTAL HORROR One of the most horrible experiments ever made on an animal stands to the “credit” of two doctors oi Soviet Russia (sav.s the ‘Sunday Chrome e ). The head of a dog was revived and kept alive for throe hours in a Moscow laboratory after the body to whichi it had been attached was dead and dmtJTh(f ’detached head “ barked ” with pain and with pleasure, although no sound issued, the vocal chords haying been severed It opened.and closet s eyes, which were as sensitive to lig t and to touch as any other dog s. Hie bodyless head even swallowed food. . . • ARTIFICIAL HEART. This ghastly business was accomplished by the use of an artifieia heart an intricate apparatus o metal and rubber-winch pumped blood to the- dog’s head. The blood, incidentally, was the very same which m hie had been pumped to this head by a real heart. ... . , The results, now made public in detail in a special cable to the Sunday Chronicle’ from the British United Press, were achieved by Brukhiuienko and Chcehulin, of the Moscow' scientific Chemical Institute. . After the administration of an amesthetic the dog’s head was severed carcfl>ll'’ HEARING ACUTE. , The artificial - heart'was attached'to the open blood vessels, and The blood sent coursing through the head. Immediately there were signs ot lite. The head reacted to the slightest touch, just as a normal dog’s would. The response to pain was so strong that it nearly wrenched the head, from the. mechanism that was keeping it alive. • The sense of hearing was also active, the head turning ' when called and startled-by loud sounds. Soviet scientists “ hope to penetrate many secrets ■of life death through such vile experiments.