AMAZING TEST ON SHEEP
For seven years, it is now revealed, scientists in the Bell Telephone Laboratories, America, in co-operation with physiologists at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centre, have been electrocuting sheep and restoring them to life a few minutes later by administering counter electric shocks. The same animals have died over and over again without being in the least affected. The experiments have been conducted to determine the varying shock responses of different , organs, and thus ultimately to prevent aecide: '.s from cl<fbtrical shock. Sheep were chosen because some of their organs are similar to those of man, and because they are easy to replace as laboratory specimens. At present resuscitation is possible under laboratory conditions only, and application of the experiment on human beings is considered impracticable because of the time element and the equipment needed at the scene of the shock.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22504, 23 February 1935, Page 3
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143AMAZING TEST ON SHEEP Otago Daily Times, Issue 22504, 23 February 1935, Page 3
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