A STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 5 February 1909, Page 1

A STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENT.

" flf "S" ,-■, EXPERIMENT BY A BERLIN f .doctor. : —s ~sDr Adolf Posner, of Berlin lUniversity, ': has startled the scientific world hy statin^ that Burgery ad^nced "taja point which makes it possibW.to transfer ths head of one human being to'the heck of another- (says "Science j?Siftihgs"K Many men of science agree that the" oporation is theoretically possibl#/i but point out'that nobody has succeeded in _ ;per-! forming it on any of the higher animals. This contention is premature, as ■ -the following shocking expeiS^ehte show.j Now comes the statement of Dr C. C. Guthrie that he took the. headj^ope dog and" joined it to the..neck..6r'.'.jW?i^er- . TheJwdyjrith Jiw^gijfWg^^^j&fid 'for 1 2J5 sninutes. Duringv-tli^tniieait was demonstrated thiCtheifeTghiadgbad . come into coromu^<Mtio^*it^ih£ Wdy, the heart pumped . J^ood?tnrOßgfc»e 1 artefteffin-SheneclrandsnoTinßl^ ed thehead,andl)rai>.lThes6jJiff|rßurh sent nervous.impulses4td;,th¥-AOrgans;of the body, ,an,d,fflairitiunei its'functions for !36 minutes^-^-v ,;- r :t^*' The fact that tho--composits^xlogii««d was wondorful enough,>and removed the scientific objectibne-to ;Dr PosnS's ment, but the dog did more.than'live during thoso 26mirtuttst'';5'He'''creature i was conscious during noArlyithaiUvhole .period and proyed. jt unmistakably.Fr ■