7) Zombie Cat
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In the early 1800’s humans were pretty obsessed with raising things from the dead. German scientist Karl August Weinhold was once such scientist. He reckoned that the human brain was like a battery and thought that a simple experiment with a cute little kitty would prove his point.
Karl decapitated cats and plugged them in, essentially. He went one step further with another experiment; he spooned out the cat’s cerebellum and removed the spinal cord from a live cat then filled the cavities with amalgam (silver and zinc).
Weinhold explained his findings:
[The] animal lost all life, all sensory functions, voluntary muscles movement, and eventually its pulse. Afterward, I filled both cavities with the aforementioned amalgam. For almost 20 minutes, the animal got into such a life-tension that it raised its head, opened its eyes . . . finally got up with obvious effort, hopped around, and sank down exhausted.
It didn’t work. Good try though Karl.
