Vladimir Demikhov: The Two-Headed Dog Surgeon
Vladimir Demikhov: The Two-Headed Dog Surgeon
On 1954, soviet surgeon Vladimir Demikhov, revealed his masterpiece to the world: a two-headed dog. The head of a puppy had been grafted onto the neck of an adult German shepherd.
The second head would lap at milk, even though it did not need nourishment — and though the milk then [...]
Johann Conrad Dippel: The original Frankenstein
Johann Conrad Dippel was such a mad scientist that he was actually born in castle Frankenstein in 1673, a place near near Darmstadt, Germany. He is said to be the model for Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein”, though that idea remains controversial.
After studying theology, philosophy and alchemy, he created an animal oil made of bones, blood [...]
A 5-year-old peruvian – World’s Youngest Mother
Into the hospital at Pisco (Peru) came a tired, ragged Indian woman from the foothills of the Andes. She led by the hand a shy little girl, scarcely three feet tall, with chestnut braids and an enormously bulging abdomen. Pointing to the frightened child, the Indian woman begged Surgeon Geraldo Lozada to exorcise the evil [...]
Sergei Bruyukhonenko: The Dog Decapitator
Way before Vladimir Demikhov, Bruyukhonenko’s mad experiments on dogs led to the development of open-heart procedures. He developed a crude machine called the autojektor (a heart and lung machine).
By using this primitive machine, Bryukhonenko kept the heads of severed dogs alive. In 1928, he displayed one of the heads in front of an audience. To [...]
Kevin Warwick: The First Human Cyborg
Kevin Warwick is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics with such a fascination with for robots, that he’s endeavoring to be the first man ever to become a cyborg.
On 1998, a simple RFID transmitter was implanted beneath Warwick’s skin, and used to control doors, lights, heaters, and other computer-controlled devices based on his proximity. [...]
Shiro Ishii: Dr. Pure Evil
Ishii was a microbiologist and the lieutenant general of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He was born in the former Shibayama Village of Sanbu District in Chiba Prefecture, and studied medicine at Kyoto Imperial University.
In 1932, he began his preliminary experiments in biological warfare [...]
Andrew Ure: The Scottish Butcher
Andrew Ure, despite his many accomplishments as a Scottish doctor, was more famously known for four experiments conducted on Matthew Clydesdale on November 4, 1818. The first experiment involved an incision in the nape of the neck. Part of the vertebra was removed. An incision was then made in the left hip.
Then a cut was [...]
Giovanni Aldini: The Corpse Electrocutioner
Aldini was the nephew of Luigi Galvani. His uncle essentially discovered the concept of galvanism, when experimenting with electrical currents on frog legs. Aldini took those experiments further.Aldini conducted his experiments on corpses.
In front of an audience, he conducted an experiment on a hung murderer, George Forster. He applied conducting rods to the man’s rectum, [...]
Josef Mengele: The Angel of Death
Joseph Mengele gained notoriety chiefly for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced laborer, and for performing human experiments on camp inmates, amongst whom Mengele was known as the “Angel of Death.”
At Auschwitz, Mengele [...]
Stubbins F firth: The Yellow Fever Vomit-Drinking Doctor
During the 1800s, a doctor training in Philadelphia, Stubbins F firth, formed the hypothesis that yellow fever was not an infectious disease, and proceeded to test it on himself.
He first poured infected vomit into open wounds, then drank the vomit. He did not fall ill, but not because yellow fever is not infectious: it was [...]