Mad Science: Self-Experiments

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Self-Experiments

Topics from the archives of the Mad Science Museum related to self-experimentation.

Johann Wilhelm Ritter: The Man Who Married His Voltaic Pile	Stubbins Ffirth: The Vomit-Drinking Doctor	Grassi Eats Worms
Nicolae Minovici (1868-1941), The Doctor Who Hanged Himself For Science	Frederick Hoelzel (1889-1963), The Glass-Eating Scientist	The Self-Surgery of Dr. Evan O’Neill Kane
Joseph Barcroft’s Borderland Excursions	AW Blair: Effects of the Black Widow on Man	Edward Carmichael (1896-1978), The Doctor Who Stacked Weights on His Testicles
Edwin Katskee: Death by Cocaine	Human Deceleration	The Quest for Bulletproof Skin
Locked in an airtight box with plants, 1771 & 2011