The Prescott daily news., 1909-01-06
An Exchange of Heads. A Story of the Future.
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It was fifty years ago, in 1908, that the first experiments in transplanting organs of the lower animals were made and made successfully. It 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 chance to live again, though under a swapped identity. Patrick Flanagan and Gottlieb Shu- | 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 off | the circulation was but twenty min ! utcG. This brought it within the limit i Oe lime necessary to prevent coagula- tion 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 it's effect. and within few hours Dr. Scalpe began to feel that the experi- ment had been successful. But it was ten weeks before the patients were discharged.
 Up to this time it had been supposed that the individuality of person was solely in the brain. The case of Elan agan and Shuman demonstrated that, though this is partially correct, it is not entirely so. Flanagan on the day of his discharge headed straight for saloon and shouted to the barkeeper, "Ye spalpeen, gimme"-he hesitated and instead of calling for q glass of whisky tinished-"ein glass beer.' Shu- man, who followed him into the place, succeeded in correctly giving an order for whisky, but the barkeeper. being inattentive or thinking he said beer, handed him a glass of that beverage, whereupon he berated the Teuton.
 What dye mane, ye heathen? Fon glass visky, said und sweitzer case sandwich"
 body with Shumans head on it-tOOk a hand. Turning to Shuman's body with his own Flanagan's) head, he growled:
 And it is the likes of yes that's pokin' fun at the Irish race by mixin wid its illigant talk yer beastly Dutch spreken? Gott in himmel! Vas y mean?"
 Shuman's Dutch body Qrish head retorted:
 "Mein friend, kilt dat man init a hammer. If you say another wort, ye murtherin' Irishman, Ofll mash yel Dutch head wid dot beer glass;" | Ir;c looked at his companions Hiberniar features contemptuously.
 50 V killed him wid a hammer, did ye? I spoilt my mans skull wid 6 sthicll lacken a shillalah. Git out mil yourself!'
 Reaching over the bar, he seized q stone pitcher, his enemy meanwhile raising a beer glass. Then the two drew apart. each poising his weapon and glancing at the other
 Dr. Scalpel on discharging his pa tients (so to speak, had directed ono of his assistants to follow them t( watch their movements, notice theil ! idiosyncrasies and report to him. Al this iuncture the shadower rushed into the doctors viyisecting room and excitedly informed him that the mer were quarreling in mixture of Hi bernian and German and he feared they would do each other bodily harm Dr. Scalpel, feeling that some of the reunited parts might not yet have sufficiently healed to warrant a scrim mage, seized his hat and rushed ou with the informer to the saloon. H. found the Irish body dancing around with the true motions of an angeret Hibernian, its serious German fact