10 Incredible Real-Life Mad Scientists
6. Sergei Brukhonenko (1890-1960)
Soviet scientist Sergei Brukhonenko has been credited with helping bring about important advances in Russian open-heart surgery, but his grisly experiments on animals were far more disturbing. Not one to wait, Brukhonenko wasnt content with slicing up animals after theyd died. More specifically, not only did he not like to wait, but he also didnt like the animals to die even after theyd been decapitated. In the late 1930s, Brukhonenko and his team undertook a series of experiments as part of which they removed a canines head and kept it alive away from its body by hooking it up to air- and blood-supply apparatus. Nor was this the only monstrosity Brukhonenko created: another hound had all the blood drawn from its body only to later be brought back to life by this Soviet Frankenstein. Brukhonenkos gruesome work was captured on camera in the 1940 film Experiments in the Revival of Organisms .
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Science has come a long way, hmmm?
It seems that most of those freaky guys were involved in biology related subjects like genetics , medicineor brain experiments . Heady stuff ... I'm not surprised that many of them "overreached " a bit .
As to Tesla , he didn't really get freaky until old age settled in . One is expected to go a little nuts when that stage is reached . Anyone who lives long enough discovers that contemporary culture isn't as "cultured" as the masses believe . There are many famous cooky old men ... Howard Hughes for example .