Pain
Topics from the archives of the Mad Science Museum related to the study of pain. Arranged in descending chronological order.
Electrified Sheep
& Elephants on Acid
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The scene: London, 1935. A man in his mid-twenties sits in a comfortable chair in the middle of a hospital room. His eyes are tightly closed. His arms lie on the armrests. Several fingers of his right hand are enclosed in glass devices resembling test tubes, connected by plastic tubing to a machine. An older man wearing a white lab coat creeps up behind him, careful not to make any noise. The older man walks around in front of the sitting man, looks closely at him to determine that his eyes are shut, then reaches down between the other man's legs, grabs, and roughly squeezes the testicles. The younger man gasps.
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The Sensitive Testes (1933)
In 1933, either Herbert Woollard or Edward Carmichael had weights stacked on his testicles for the sake of science. It's not possible to say exactly which one of these London-based doctors bore the unusual burden, because while both participated in the experiment, only one of them lay on a table and suffered the scrotal compression. The other one did the stacking. They never revealed who served in which capacity — nor how they chose who was to be the unlucky one. |