Evening journal., 1909-02-04
Observation-Disclosures,
An Exchange Of Heads.
A Story Of the Future.
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copyright, 1908, by American Press Asso-
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1t was fifty years ago, in 1908. that
the first experiments in transplanting
organs of the lower animals were |
made and made successfully. II was
then announced by one vivisectionist
that he had transplanted dogs heads /
with preservation of cerebral and |
bulbar function.
= During the decade that followed this,
discovery the technique involved in
transplanting the head of one dog TO
the body of another was very much |
improved, and surgical scientists be- |
gan to covet an opportunity TO try the |
experiment upon men. But it was not |
until 1915 that DR.. Therapeutus Scalpel |
succeeded IN obtaining the requisite |
human subjects. The courts that had /
sentenced two murderers to be electro
cuted consented that they should in
stead be decapitated by DR.. Scalpel
with a view to an exchange Of heads.
The prisoners gladly consented because
they would have a chance to live again,
though under a swapped identity.
Patrick Flanagan and GOttlieb Shu-
man were the subjects. Dr. Scalpel |
before making the experiment spent
three months in educating an eminent
vivisectionist and four young physi- |
clans to assist him. Just before the
heads were severed the last rights of
the church were administered to the
convicts, after which they were placed
on operating tables side by side.
The period OF occlusion Shutting on
the circulation was but twenty min
utes. -hls brought II within the limit
of time necessary to prevent coagula-
ton. During this period each head
was removed from the body, trans
planted, the arteries. muscles and
nerves saturated. the point Of cutting
Of the spinal chord being especially
carefully adjusted.
Suspended animation returned as
soon as the anaesthetic began to lose
its effect. and within few hours DR..
scalpel began to feel that the expert
ment had been successful. But 1t was
ten weeks before the patients were
discharged.
Up to this time it had been supposed
that. the individuality of a person was
solely in the brain. The case Of Elan
agan and Shuman demonstrated that
though this is partially correct, 1t is
not entirely so. Flanagan on the day
Of his discharge headed straight for a
saloon and shouted 20 the barkeeper,
"Ye spalpeen, gimme"-he hesitated
and instead OF calling for a glass OF
whisky fnished-"ein glass beer Shu-
man, who followed him into the place,
succeeded in correctly giving an order
for whisky, but the barkceper, being
inattentive or thinking he said beer.
handed him a glass Of that beverage.
whereupon he berated the Ieuton.
"What dye name. ye heathenf Fon
glass visky. said. und sweitzer case
] sandwich
| Here Flanagan--that is. Flanagan S
, body with shumans head on it-took
r hand. Turning TO shuman's body
with his own Oslanagan's) head. he
growled:
"And It is the likes Of yes that's
pokin' fun at the Irish race by mixin
J. wild its illigant talk yer beastly Dutcl
spreken? Gott in himmeil Vas y
mean?"
shuman's Dutch body Grish head
retorted;
y "Aiein friend, kilt dat man nit
n hammer. If you say another wort. -
I murtherin lrishman, ORR mash ye
! Dutch head wild dot beer glass;
Flanagan's Irish body Dutch head
: looked at his companions Hiberniai
n features contemptuously.
u $50 v killed him vid hammer, di'
ye? / spoilt my mans &uh wid
: sthick lacken shulalah. Git out mi
} yourselfr'
Reaching over the bar, he seized
stone pitcher. his enemy meanwhn
raising a beer glass. Then the Nv
drew apart each poiHing his weap'
and glancing at the other
.e Dr. Scalpel on discharging MS p'
/ tients $50 TO speak, had directed on
- Of his assistants TO follow them {
- watch their movements. notice thei
l. idiosyncrasies and report TO him. z
l. this iuncture the shadower rushe
n into the Doctors vivisecting room an
le excltedly informed him that the me
!. were quarreling In a mixture OF II
= = berninn and German cad he tenre
"a they would do cnch other bodily har@
; I,r. scalpcl. feeling that some Of q
ID reunited parts might not yet haV
e. safacientiy healed to warrant a scrin
is mage. seized his hat and rushed OF
ir with the info-mer to the saloon. Z
/ found the Irish body dancing aroen
-e VIII the trsc notions OF an angere
~ TIibernian, its serious German rae
D. scowlinc. the lips occasionally mute
ne ing in the German language. TT
ID German body was standing stolidl
N. so ono place. its Irish face irhtad wii