having trouble keeping your severed dog head alive?

You're in luck! *Below is a video which chronicles an old Soviet experiment in which a dog's head was allegedly kept alive after it was removed from the body. Do I even need to tell you this video is graphic and extremely disturbing?




This is a great post if you have the time to read it.

Did Soviet scientists actually keep a disembodied dog head alive back in the 1940s? Did those crazed Stalinist Frankensteins then follow up that stunt by surgically creating a two headed dog in 1954? (That is, if "two-headed" is accurate - it's more like two heads, six legs and one-and-a-half torsi.)

Sorry, I just wanted to use the word "torsi."

And forget the Soviets - what about the monkey brain that a Cleveland surgeon transplanted from one primate to another? Are these all Internet hoaxes, or the only known evidence of a subject too taboo to be taken seriously - the research into head and brain transplants that's been going on for decades?

I wish I had definitive answers for you - I don't. But I'm more inclined towards believing that these experiments actually took place than when I first stumbled onto this weird medical sub-culture. After starting off as a skeptic, I've come to believe that organisms have indeed been revived. Heads have been lopped off. Brains have been perfused. Cephalic members transplanted. Glucose permeated in isolated canine craniums. The works.

What follows is a fascinating, barebones account of the weird medical subculture of organ revival and transplantation.

*You Tube videos load very slowly. It's best to start the video, pause it--look around the rest of Braindead Shithead--go back and start watching the video after the download has made some progress. All that to see a severed dog head move around! Damn.