#...and then kept the decapitated head of the second dog alive for THREE hours

[hirako5hinji]

reading about sergei brukhonenko and vladimir demikhov today and we are just 😭😭😭😭

#[ u know the heart-lung machine that’s used during heart bypass surgery to keep the heart alive and pumping outside the body? #these two russian surgeons were the forefathers of this technology that has saved countless lives over the years all around the world #they made many medical contributions to open heart procedures and organ transplants #but did u know how they discovered/tested out their invention? #they connected the lungs of one dog to the heart of another dog with their machine #...and then kept the decapitated head of the second dog alive for THREE hours #thus proving that the technology works #the dog head was neurologically patent and could respond to stimuli #blink its eyes and twitch and curl its lips like normal up until its heart finally gave out #😭😭😭😭 #then demikhov went on to use this invention to perform transplants...such as attaching a puppy’s head to another dog #- making living functional cerberuses with multiple heads 😭😭😭😭 #kinda have complicated feelings when I look at a heart-lung machine now ngl ] #[ brb need to go hug and coddle my doggo all night now ] #;;Oυт σƒ Jαzz #;;tbd