diet of worms

5 bizarre self-experiment #5 stung by spider the "real spider-man," allan blair is famousfor his self-experimentation in the field of entomology and toxicology. he allowed the female black widow to bitehim for 10 seconds to get all of its venom

diet of worms, into his body and to experience the effectsof the bite. he experienced pain in his lymph nodes andvarious other parts of the body and the wound began to swell as the toxins gone throughhis lymphatic system caused him an impaired ability to speak and breathe.

#4 cocaine spinal anesthesia the operation using cocaine spinal anesthesiawas performed by a german surgeon, august bier on himself that left him with a largehole in his spine as most of the cerebro-spinal fluid leaked out. further, it was attempted by his assistant,augustus hildebrandt and the extents were tested by hitting with an iron hammer, burningwith cigars, pulling out pubic hairs, and even smashing his testicles but he felt nothing. as the anesthetic wore off, both men did experiencethe severe headaches and symptoms. #3 diet of worms

giovanni grassi, an italian doctor decidedto ingest the eggs of roundworm to show how it was transmitted through the fecal matterof humans. the eggs were kept in a solution to ensurethey would remain alive. after a month of ingestion, he began to experiencethe discomfort of the roundworms and pulling eggs out of his stool. this ingestion of eggs can grow worms up to6 feet long inside the humans. #2 testing the testes any one of the scientists hebert woollardand edward carmichael used their testicles for studying the phenomena of referred pain,i.e. the sensation of pain in another part

of the body when an internal organ is harmed. the men were able to prove that harm to thetesticles does produce referred pain as there is terrible testicular pain on right sideat 650 grams and it spread across their back once the weight reached 0.9 kilograms. no other scientists had been willing to duplicatetheir extreme experiment. #1 joseph barcroft a cambridge graduate, barcroft committed severalself-experiments on the oxygenation of blood that pushed him to the edge of his physicaland mental limits. in an experiment, he shut himself into a chamberfull of hydrogen cyanide.

while the dog accompanied him lasted only95 seconds he was able to last for a full 10 minutes.

barcroft stayed in a low-oxygen chamber equivalentto an elevation of 4,900 meters in another experiment causing his whole body to turn blue. in his last one, he locked himself naked intoa refrigerated chamber to test the effects of freezing on mental activity.