1. Round worms from a corpse
It was carried out by Italian doctor,
Giovanno Grassi who was researching on parasitology. He was carrying out
an autopsy when he found ring-worms bursting out from the intestines.
He ingested the eggs of the roundworms since he wanted to know better
the life-cycle of roundworms and their transmission. He preserved the
eggs from in a jar and tested for the presence of roundworms on his
body. Once he found himself cleared, he injected the eggs into his body
and it took four weeks for the eggs to take effect. He started feeling
stomach aches before observing them in his stool. Finally, he eliminated
the roundworms using a local herbal remedy.
2. Diet plan for weight loss
Fredrick Hoelzel tried a diet-plan
consisting of non-calorie items so as to lose weight. Nobody can guess
which were his diet items but be ready to be surprised since his diet
items were banana stem, rayon, asbestos, sawdust, feathers, cork and
cobs. According to him, this was the best diet-plan to lose weight
faster and surgical cotton was the best among the items. This helped in
knowing the digestion and ingestion time of the unusual diet items.
3. Voltaic romance
Johann Wilhelm, a German physicist
performed a strange self-experiments using the voltaic cells. Johann
wanted to know the reaction of body parts on application of
electric-current through voltaic cell. When the electric-current was
applied to the tongue, he noticed an acidic-taste. His nose sneezed once
current was applied, but the most interesting section was after
applying electric-current to his genitals. It gave him an exciting
sensation and an amazing orgasm. This led to the establishment of an
electro-orgasm.
4. The decelerating doctor
John Paul Stapp, a fight surgeon decided
to know whether pilots would be ejecting from supersonic jets without
facing death risks. He designed a rocket-powered sled which blasted down
a 3500 foot track at speed of up to 750 mph before slamming into a pool
of water abruptly. Strong restraints ensured that the forward
trajectory of the passenger did not continue. In 1947, John went at
90mph and continued adding that over seven years, he had ridden the sled
27 times. The worst happened in 1954 when nine rockets propelled him to
632mph and the sled hit the water. Luckily he survived although he felt
as if his eyes were being pulled out of his head.
5. Self surgery
Evan Kane, an American surgeon laid on a
table in 1921 waiting to have his appendix removed. He decided to
perform the operation and ordered everybody to step back since he was
the chief surgeon at the hospital. The procedure went on well and it
took thirty minutes. Eleven years later, he needed a hernia operation
and decided to self-operate again. However, it proved more problematic
because he failed to regain his strength fully and died three months
later.
6. A cold excursion
Joseph Barcroft, a Cambridge
physiologist conducted self-experiments that pushed him to the very edge
of death and insanity. He decided to test the effects of freezing on
mental functioning in 1931. He stripped naked on top of a table in a
refrigerated chamber. He curled up and shivered to stay warm but a
strange mental change occurred after an hour. He didn’t care whether
someone might walk in and find him naked. The sense of cold passed away
and was saved by a research assistant before approaching the state of
lethal hypothermia.
7. Stung by a spider
Allan Walker used a pair of forceps to
place a female black spider against the index finger of his left hand.
Unfortunately, the spider sunk its claws into his skin twisting from
side to side. He held the spider in the same position for ten seconds as
its venom entered his body. He experienced severe muscular cramps that
made it hard to breathe and dropped his blood pressure. He concluded
that the bite of a female black spider is dangerous for man.
8. Man Self-Injects Snake Venom to Boost Up His Immunity
42 years old Steve Ludwin is one of
people who frequently insert venom from world deadliest snakes into their
bloodstream in confidence that one day it will make them resistant to it.
According
to an estimate up to 100,000 people around the globe pass away each
year from snake bites and more than 250,000 are permanently disabled.
But these realities do not scare Steve from doing that. (read article)
