Comment

Comment by Kerry Hay on August 6, 2013 at 7:22pm

Only read this article if over 18-years of age, because your government doesn't want you to know. "There are sick minded scientist that have transplanted many a primate's head from its own body to that of another as one of the greatest medical achievements of the twentieth century, how disgusting. No animal should be subjected to this barbaric cruel torture.

Dr. Robert White - at the time, a neurosurgeon at Cleveland's Metro Health Care Center - experimented with keeping disembodied monkey and dog brains alive during the 1960s. In 1970, he upped the ante by severing the head of a rhesus monkey, then attaching it to the headless, still-living body of a second monkey. An article from London's Sunday Telegraph Magazine sets the scene of the 18-hour surgery.

Chalk marks on the floor fixed the position of more than thirty highly drilled professionals; two surgical teams, a squad of anesthesiologists, assorted nurses, phalanxes of technicians, a bevy of scientists equipped to analyze blood and urine samples on the spot. The poor creature regained consciousness and, according to White's paper in Surgery, it and the subsequent Frankenmonkeys were well aware of their surroundings, visually tracking people and objects. Traumatized beyond all comprehension, they were also agitated and violent, chomping a staff member's finger "if orally stimulated. In her death book Stiff, Mary Roach writes.

The monkeys lived anywhere from six hours to three days, most of them dying from rejection issues or from bleeding.

http://www.kerryhay.spiderweb.com.au