I wouldn't be surprised if it did happen in the camps.
It would obviously be very convenient if military field hospitals could have a constant supply of fresh blood available from a herd of goats or whatever. I imagine that the doctors involved would have had a pretty good idea that it almost certainly wasn't possible, but if you have an endless supply of human guinea pigs and the normal ethical concerns don't apply, why not give it a shot?
Ever wonder where the estimated survival rates that are quoted whenever there's an incident were people are immersed in cold water come from? Some of those tables are based on the results of the Dachau Human Hypothermia Study, where concentration camp inmates were put in tanks of water at various temperatures and kept there until they reached various states of hypothermia, up to and including death.
What would happen if you switched blood with an animals?
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I wouldn't be surprised if it did happen in the camps.
It would obviously be very convenient if military field hospitals could have a constant supply of fresh blood available from a herd of goats or whatever. I imagine that the doctors involved would have had a pretty good idea that it almost certainly wasn't possible, but if you have an endless supply of human guinea pigs and the normal ethical concerns don't apply, why not give it a shot?
Ever wonder where the estimated survival rates that are quoted whenever there's an incident were people are immersed in cold water come from? Some of those tables are based on the results of the Dachau Human Hypothermia Study, where concentration camp inmates were put in tanks of water at various temperatures and kept there until they reached various states of hypothermia, up to and including death.