All the butchers know perfectly well?

In a book ' From the field of mystery ', compiled by Gregory Dyachenko, there is a small chapter, ' Living by cutting off their heads '. Among other things it states: ' For some time been told that a man when he cut off his head, did not immediately cease to live, and that he continues to think the brain and muscles to move, until finally the blood flow does not stop and he did not . '.

Indeed, the severed head from the body is able to live for some time. Muscle twitching of her face, she grimaces in response to injections with sharp objects or connecting to it with an electric wire.

February 25, 1803 in Breslau, was executed murderer named Troer. The young doctor Wendt, who later became well-known professor, begged her head was executed for her scientific experiments. Immediately after the execution, getting his head out of the hands of the executioner, he put a plate of zinc electroplating apparatus to one of the transected anterior neck muscles. There was a strong reduction of muscle fibers. Wendt then became annoying transected spinal cord - was executed on the face an expression of suffering. Then Dr. Wendt made ​​a gesture as if to poke his fingers into the eyes of the executed - they are immediately closed, as if noticing the danger. He then turned his severed head face to the sun, and his eyes closed again. After this was done by testing hearing. Wendt twice shouted in his ears: ' Troer! ' . Finally, she put a finger in his mouth, his teeth clenched and his head so hard that his finger felt the pain klavshy. Only two minutes forty seconds eyes closed and life finally extinguished in the head.

After the execution of the life time the heat is not only cut off the head, but also in the body. According to historical chronicles, sometimes decapitated corpses of a large gathering of people showed miracles balancing act!.

In 1336, King Louis of Bavaria sentenced to death by a gentleman Dina von Shaunburga and four of his mercenaries because they dared to rebel against him and thus, as the chronicle says, ' to disturb the tranquility of the country '. Troublemaker, according to the custom of the time, had to chop off the head.

Before his execution, according to the chivalric tradition, Louis of Bavaria asked Dina von Shaunburga what will be his last wish. The desire to state criminal was somewhat unusual. Dean is not required as it is ' practiced ', no wine, no women, and asked the king to pardon convicted mercenaries, if he will run past them after. own penalty. And so the king did not suspect any trick, background Shaunburg said that those sentenced, including himself, will stand in a row at a distance of eight paces from each other, the pardon is subject only to those whom he passed, having lost their heads, will . The monarch laughed, listened to this nonsense, but promised to fulfill the desire of the doomed.

Dropped sword of the executioner. Head von Shaunburga slipped from his shoulders, and body. jumped to his feet in front of numbed by the horror of the king and courtiers present at the execution flow of irrigating the land wildly gushing from the neck stump of blood, rushed swiftly past the mercenaries. After passing the latter, that is, making more than forty (! ) Steps, it stopped, jerked convulsively and crashed to the ground.
Flabbergasted King immediately concluded that this was not without the Devil. However, kept his word: mercenaries were pardoned.

Almost two hundred years later, in 1528, something similar happened in another German city - Rodshtadte. There was sentenced to beheading and burning at the stake of the body of a monk troublemaker who allegedly bogomerzkimi his sermons confused law-abiding population. Monk denied his guilt, and after his death, immediately promised to provide conclusive evidence. And indeed, after the boy cut off the preacher 's head, his body fell forward on wooden platform and lay there without moving for three minutes. And then the. and then the incredible happened: the headless body turned over on his back, put your right foot to the left, crossed his arms, and only after this has finally died down. Naturally, after such a miracle, the court acquitted the Inquisition and the Monk appropriately buried in the cemetery.

But let's leave headless bodies. The question is: Does any place in the thought processes of a severed human head? . Here is how he describes an interesting hypnotic experiment carried out the famous Belgian painter Wirtz over the head of a guillotined robber.

' It has long been an artist fascinated with the question: how long is the procedure for the execution of the offender and feels a sense of what the defendant in the last minutes of life, that it thinks and feels his head, separated from the body, and indeed, if she could think and feel. Wirz was well acquainted with Dr. Brussels prison, one of which, Dr. D. , Studied hypnotism for the past thirty years. The artist told him his strong desire to get the suggestion that he was a criminal, awarded to the guillotine. On the day of execution, for ten minutes before they brought the criminal, Wirz, Dr D. and two witnesses to fit the bottom of the scaffold so that they did not seem to the public, was seen shopping bag, which was supposed to fall head executed. Dr. D. lulled his medium, instilling him to identify with the offender, keep track of all his thoughts and feelings and to speak loudly condemned thoughts at the moment when the ax touches his neck.

Finally, he ordered him to penetrate into the brain is executed once the head is separated from the body, and analyze the latest thoughts of the deceased. Wirtz immediately fell asleep. A minute later the sound of footsteps: the executioner led the offender. They put him to the scaffold under the guillotine ax. Then Wirtz, trembling, begged to be awakened, because they fear the test unbearable. But it's too late. Axe wonders. ' What do you feel, what you see? ' . Wirtz writhing in convulsions and answers with a groan: ' Lightning strike! . '-' Who thinks who sees? ' . She is suffering terribly. She feels, thinks she does not understand what happened. She is looking for his body. it seems that the body will follow her. She's waiting for the final blow - the death, but death does not come. ' While Wirz uttered these terrible words, witnesses described scenes of looked at the head of the executed, with drooping hair, eyes and mouth clenched. Arteries have throbbed in the place where they cut the ax. Blood flooded the face of.

The doctor kept asking: ' What do you see where you are? ' . Am I dead? . I still think, feel, I remember everything. Here are my judges in red robes. My poor wife, my poor child! . If you wanted to connect me with the body, I could even live with you. No, you do not want. When will it all end? .
When these words were present seemed to Wirtz 's eyes opened wide, and executed a look at them with an expression of unspeakable torment and pleas. The artist went on: ' No, no! . The Lord is merciful. All the earth goes from my eyes. In the distance I see a star, shining like a diamond. Oh, how nice to be out there at the top! . As I now sleep soundly. Oh, what bliss!. '.

These were the last words of hypnotic. Now he slept soundly and did not answered the more questions a doctor. Dr. D. came to mind was executed and felt his forehead, temples, teeth. It was cold as ice, his head was dead '.
In 1902, the famous Russian physiologist Professor A. A. Kulyabko, after a successful recovery of the heart of the child, and tried to make a revival. head. However, to begin with just a fish. Through the blood vessels in the neatly severed head of the fish was passed a special liquid - blood substitute. The result exceeded all expectations: fish head moved the eyes and fins, opening and closing the mouth, thus showing all the signs that life goes on in it.
Experiments Kulyabko allowed his followers to move forward in revitalizing their heads even further. In 1928 in Moscow, physiology and. On. Brukhonenko and C. and. Chechulin had demonstrated a live dog's head. Connected to an extracorporeal circulation, it does not resemble a stuffed dead. When the language of the head put cotton wool soaked in acid, were found all the signs of negative reactions: grimaces, champ, was an attempt to throw the cotton wool. When inserting into the mouth licking the head of sausage. If the eyes directed stream of air, it was possible to observe the reaction Blink.
In 1959, the successful experiments with severed dog's head several times and spent in the Soviet surgeon. P. Demikhov, arguing that it was realistic to maintain life and in the human brain. However, as far as we know, he of such attempts, he did not take. For the first time it was done only in the mid- 80s two German neurosurgeons Walter and Henry Krayteru Kuridzhu, which for twenty days kept life in amputated human head.
Post about this in time led to heated debate among theorists of medicine on the moral aspects of such experiments, but Krayter and Kuridzh nothing reprehensible in their experiments do not see.
It all started with the fact that to them in the hospital orderlies brought the body of forty men who had just got in a car accident. His head was almost torn from the body and kept only a few veins. About salvation could be no question, and in this situation neurosurgeons decided to try to keep life at least in the brain of the victim. They are connected to the head, and life-support system for almost three weeks after this was maintained in the active state the human brain, the body which had long been dead. In addition, Krayter and Kuridzh established contact with the head. Due to lack of throat could not speak his head, but the movement of her lips scientists ' read ' a lot of words from which it followed that she understands what happened to her.
It is clear that believe in all that difficult, and immediately remembered a fantasy novel by Alexander Belyaev. And yet, so I hope that the human body is not an indivisible whole, and the same head, if you really try, you can sew on intact to their original location.
Is sewn in March 1990 Lipetsk machine- Valery widows left hand, severed at the shoulder is almost a machine for the liming of soils. And nothing - acts as the first. So, perhaps, was right, Alexander Belyaev, and a chance at the ' head of Professor Dowell ' remains?.

Author: H. oblivious.


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