Originally posted by TrashMan
Pood dogs...those sick bastards...
If you ever get cancer. Take an asprin. Lose an arm, asprin. Get an infection, witch hazel. Need a heart transplant, die.
Every single drug and medical technique was pioneered using animal testing. Don't like it, then don't use
ANY of them.
I'm so sick of anti-vivisectionists acting as though it's wrong to experiment on animals when the techniques developed as a result save human lives. Especially as the same bastards who complain the loudest about it are always the first in line to use the products of those experiments when they get sick.
Originally posted by aldo_14
Replacing all the blood in the body with near-frozen saline, though? Seems a bit bizarre. Especially if used on bleedy-people.
As I said, hacking the heart out of one person to put into another probably seemed odd too at one point. Thankfully we didn't have bio-ethicists back then to tell us it was wrong.
It sounds weird but basically its a high temperature version of cryogenics. Freeze the body so that it doesn't degrade, fix the problem, revive the patient. But not using cryogenic temperatures they get round the whole problem of ice crystals breaking the cells open.
I'll conceed that it seems like an odd way to deal with an enormous bleeding wound but if you think about it, it's much easier to replace the losses of cold saline than it is to replace blood.