Can We Actually Build FRANKENSTEIN's Monster?

[@theanatomylab]

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[@ThisIsMyHandle.]

"But real quick I want to say thank you to the sponsor of this video... John Doe."

[@ghettoblasterpete4022]

Great videos and here's a question, what happens if you mix the wrong blood in a body. What effects will it have and will the body function with the wrong blood, for eg the person is o- and they get giving b+ and can you use animal blood for humans

[@pantherman4699]

No shipping to Canada - *cry*

[@mraggressivestoic8442]

This is probably the first ad in a video that I wanted. No, my narcissistic personality also got the _established title_ of lord. But still, coffee is lifeblood and that transition from Frankenstein was perfect.

[@mraggressivestoic8442]

@@ghettoblasterpete4022 4:28

[@tim-tim-timmy6571]

I met a guy who got dismembered when he got hit by a car. The surgeon managed to stich back the WHOLE leg. That wasn't a clean cut as you can imagine... Now, more than a decade later, his leg is a bit stiff but he can use it rather normally. Some surgeons out there are magicians.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Friend of mine got t-boned and the car rolled on his arm at the elbow. They put it back on but it was a few inches shorter. Mostly worked.

[@sc_wdbruh]

@@napalmholocaust9093 oh dang

[@shelberz1]

:)

[@indi1omccoln565]

I wonder because it wasn’t a clean cut did it heal up better because some clean cuts are more trauma to the body

[@leinardesteves3987]

There's a vid here on youtube as well where a guy lost his arms and someone else donated arms for him. But his body is eating the arm, his immune system is attacking it because it thinks its a foreign body

[@mikeyarmstrong4136]

For those who never read the book, Victor Frankenstein didn't just "stitch" together a bunch of dead body parts. He actually started from the skeleton and worked his way outwards, attaching nerves, ligaments, muscle, skin tissue etc.. Far too much complexity for any surgical team, let alone for one medical school dropout. Still, I highly recommend it! It's a great book!

[@kajetantatara2327]

Please cut Viktor some slack, he didn't quite get what bodybuilding was at the time.

[@BrattyNerdGirl]

So basically what he actually did in the book would be scientifically impossible in real life.

[@setsunaes]

WHAT?! Ok, I have the novel lying around in the section of "I will read this next" books in my bookshelves but I didn't have a clue that was the case. I always believed that it was like 5 parts stitched together. now I need to read the book more than ever.

[@崽种看你妈呢]

brain will never relived when left body

[@hackerman2552]

@@kajetantatara2327 💀

[@sethcordes7856]

I love how the point about grave robbing isnt about morality, but about practicality

[@joemck85]

Well, pretty much everything about creating Frankenstein's monster is covered in moral problems. But be the sort of sociopath who wants to do it in the first place, and all the moral problems vanish. The practical problems however remain.

[@SpiralAnimationssssss]

Well, the story itself doesn't have a whole lot of morality in it

[@Thindorama]

Grave robbing doesn't objectively harm anybody. It just offends people attached to the deceased. So there's no moral problem in actuality.

[@Grandslam245]

​@@Thindorama exactly

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

@@Thindorama Legally speaking, grave robbing actually has another moral dilemma: encouraging murder and other attached crimes. The most infamous grave robbers were Burke and Hare in Edinburgh, Scotland and supplied the local School of Medicine there with fresh bodies initially from graveyards but slowly start sourcing them from murder victims whom they personally kill...

[@iforgor7883]

'A lot of people find the toenails uncomfortable' while waving around a severed leg.

[@benstanfill363]

To be fair in one of the other videos, seeing the fingertips and nails actually grossed me out way more than literally anything else I've seen on this channel.

[@twilightskiesx]

😅😅

[@stewiegriffin4]

@@benstanfill363this is the first video I’ve ever seen from this channel, but yeah that would absolutely freak me out

[@BonsaiandGardeningZone]

Got it all. Now i'm going to make one in my grandpa's basement. 😂

[@markgordon4368]

You could work on the waste department in the local hospital, or should I say waist department 🤔

[@abhrakantikumbhakar903]

😂🤣 me too

[@zura_xd2499]

Sus

[@RaptorFH]

Hol up

[@krejziks3398]

If you fail it's jail or mental institution for you, but if you succeed, the nobel prize awaits you, ofc.

[@hectormelendez4891]

The respect shown was a good thing

[@Hair8Metal8Karen]

I'd expect nothing less from this channel. They are so respectful and compassionate to the cadavers donated to them, and I would be so happy to know that they were caring for one of my loved ones.

[@kirbywaite1586]

Respect? This is nothing more than playing with dead people. It's the very definition of disrespect.

[@ARandomInternetUser08]

@@kirbywaite1586 awwww, is someone offended?

[@kirbywaite1586]

@@ARandomInternetUser08 No, not at all. I'm appalled. Why would you think I was offended?

[@toshineon]

@@kirbywaite1586 I wouldn't call it "playing".

[@maddym3860]

the bodies before they die: “i’m going to donate my body to science so scientists can furthermore study human anatomy!” scientists: *frankenstein*

[@Aconitum_napellus]

Better than being used to recreate roadside bombs.

[@beebob2877]

this is actually how my parents made me

[@One-ct3xe]

When someone asks if you were born in a barn, you can say "Parts of me... Maybe."

[@apurvaaryan7984]

All it needs is a fleshy electrified electrode and a fleshy vessel to plant the seed.

[@hrikghosh9186]

Well if taken as a born on another body then are you a surrogate child ? 🤔

[@chrisk2426]

@@One-ct3xe 😂😂😂

[@ryanslack2666]

My parents built me like a lego dude

[@indi1omccoln565]

“mad scientist dissembles varies body parts from various ppl to bring them together to bring them alive to torment him and his family” Sounds a lot like being born if you ask me lol

[@the-0-endless376]

I think that might've been Shelly's point

[@muineeguh7011]

I too, was born an 8-foot man

[@indi1omccoln565]

@@muineeguh7011 your partner must be so proud❤️

[@nathanbeetge5813]

I ain't a mother but my parents told me babys are hard W O R K

[@nathanbeetge5813]

@@muineeguh7011 well than u were born from a mad scientist

[@UnknowableThen]

That old Jeff Goldblum quote "Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should" was banging around my head this entire time.

[@AnjolaoluwaAwe]

This is the perfect video- it combines my love of anatomy and literature 😊

[@theanatomylab]

I get the feeling we'd be great friends!

[@thee8797]

@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 What are you implying?

[@albino_rat4835]

@@thee8797 IDK it sounds kinda creepy to me.

[@lemony_lemonz123]

@@thee8797 he implied that he also loves anatomy and literature

[@MegaObserver2010]

@@theanatomylab Greetings ! May I field a hypothetical question, please ? I have always wondered if a human could be brought back ( to life ) , say if most parameters you mentioned were met. The scenario is a BUS ACCIDENT right in front of a hospital , in which all 40 passengers are killed. By chance they are all young and fit, have the same blood type , etc. They can be on an O.R. Table in minutes , and you pick the best ( ie. least physiologically impacted ) individuals as your choice for a successful limb , organ transplants. Still keeping in mind they have all deceased. Could the chosen candidates be brought back into existence. This is not from any religious perspective , but rather philosophical. Can life ( the force ) within be medically returned ... and would it be the person who they were before. ( just curious since sometimes people , on the OR table, during surgery, just expire )

[@madisonn5288]

Thanks for posting! I have to take a Human Anatomy course next semester, and your passion for anatomy and your respect for those who donated their bodies to science has made me slightly less terrified of cadavers.

[@theanatomylab]

Thank you! That truly means a lot! Good luck with your anatomy course!

[@apurvaaryan7984]

Video title should be- How to unkill someone.

[@A_Different_ViewPoint.]

😂😂

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

Necromancers - really late healers.

[@Bob3D2000]

*TLDR:* In the original book, it isn't explained how Frankenstein made the creature. The most obvious interpretation, to me at least, is that he somehow 'grew' the monster, whole, from raw material obtained from cadavers, and that the creature was not stitched together from separate parts. No electricity seems to have been used, and the creature looks quite different compared to onscreen depictions. I recommend reading the book; it's really very good. *Detail:* Frankenstein's monster is not depicted in any on-screen adaptation (that I've seen, there are many) as described in the book. In the book, the monster has yellowish skin (I imagined severely jaundiced) and long, flowing, beautiful hair. He is not described as having scars, stitches, bolts or anything like that. He is a whole person. Frankenstein deliberately refrains from describing how he made the monster because he doesn't want anyone to be able to make another one. There is no mention at all of stitching body parts together and electricity is certainly not used to bring it to life. The impression you get from the book is that Frankenstein used cadavers to obtain the raw material stock, be that tissue, cellular material or a chemical soup of proteins, fats, etc. I imagined that the process was more like _growing_ the creature out of the raw material. This is supported by the fact that Frankenstein designed the creature's features, and that those features weren't dictated by the cadavers he used. Also, you can't make an eight foot tall person out of parts of normal-sized people. The appearance of the monster's face is entirely down to the imagination as the author is deliberately vague about it. However, it seems from what description is given, that Frankenstein attempted to give the creature the features of idealised masculinity. What I saw in my mind was not an ugly creature in the traditional, monsterish sense, but someone actually quite handsome, albeit somewhat brutish. His 'monsterous' appearance was because a set of perfectly idealised, individual features generally don't come together to make a normal-looking whole. Michael Jackson paid people to give him a traditionally masculine jawline, chin, cheekbones, etc. and look at how he turned out. I didn't even imagine Frankenstein's monster looking as freakish as that. Anyway the whole book is about what _makes_ someone a monster. I highly recommend reading it. By the way, the reason he's often depicted as green is because the artist who made the posters for the first Frankenstein film was working from the cast in full costume. In those days, you often used strange colours and special paints to make things look right when picked up by black and white film. To give the actor playing the monster a sickly, palid look, they painted him with a special, green paint. So the first time anyone saw an image of the monster, it was those posters. This is also why witches are often depicted as having green skin.

[@amywebb4586]

And very few of the concepts discussed in this video where known and/or discussed outside of medical circles back in 1818. Mary Shelley wrote the story while at a house party with her husband, Lord Byron, and some other of their friends. Byron issued a challenge to the group to write a horror story to share with the group as a way to entertain themselves. Legend has it that not only was alcohol involved in the party but so was cocaine and opium and that Mary Shelley was high as a kite when she wrote the book.

[@jrschroeder3758]

Very informative, thank you. I'm going to try to find the book

[@Lagarok1999]

This comment was so good, I'm very curious to read the book now

[@Random-nw9gi]

I'mma correct one small detail here. The creature's face is described as having the look of skin stretched over bone, and having teeth clearly visible through said tissue. Out of everything described, the face is described in the most detail, it being the one, horrifying image burned into Victor's brain. Now, the book also does state that Victor fled in terror from the shock of the horror he had created. The monster was not described as pleasant to look at, and was not, as you put it, "ideally masculine". For all intents and purposes, he was a towering being with a disfigured face. That being said, I find your interpretation of events described in the novel to be.... interesting, if not a little fascinating. The idea that bringing "Adam" (as I call the monster due to his "I ought to be thy, Adam" line from the book) to life through a process similar to that of that one sheep that was cloned years ago, is an interesting, if not completely doable way of accomplishing Victor's outcome. Hats off to you for getting the cogs in my brain turning.

[@Cuckoorex]

Good summary. I first read the edition of Frankenstein with the fantastic illustrations by Bernie Wrightson, and I've had that image of the physical appearance of the creature in mind whenever I think of the character. Interestingly, Wrightson chose to depict the gradual and continual degradation of tissue as the story went on, implying to me that Frankenstein had made errors which left the creature with diminished regenerative powers. I didn't really get the impression that the creature was grown, but since you've said it, I began thinking that a modern approach might be something more akin to genetically engineering a chimera of sorts, somehow selecting for the most desirable traits from various donors. I think this would still be true to the themes of the book but seem like an approach which might reasonably be plausible compared to the virtually impossible approach depicted in the movies.

[@jdrose1000]

Thank you for calling him, “Frankenstein’s Monster”! People keep getting it wrong by calling him Frankenstein, which he is not! Dr. Frankenstein made him!

[@eclectichoosier5474]

Frankenstein IS the monster of the story

[@trashcant6323]

If we're going for peak accuracy, Victor Frankenstein isn't even a doctor. He never graduated or got a medical degree, he literally dropped out to make the Creature lmao

[@jdrose1000]

@@trashcant6323 I was pointing out who was who!

[@MrBEA68]

He had a name you know, mentioned in the novel. His name was Adam. So Dr. Frankenstein created Adam.

[@possums154]

Dude I'm not even a doctor i dropped out of college to make my failure of a creature

[@Hair8Metal8Karen]

I love how Justin is out here giving us exactly the content we are asking for at Halloween! Thank you, our very own spooky Mad Scientist!

[@leatherface1136]

Lol imagine thinking by donating your body to science you'd somehow be reanimated in the future (possibly) but instead some guy is explaining why Frankenstein is implausible with your remains

[@amywebb4586]

Honestly I would be totally fine with.

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

I think I’d like that. It’s like being in a never ending Costume party - 🤔 only in your Adam (or Eve, in my case) costume - whilst educating people. Much better than being eaten by maggots!

[@musicaldramaqueen]

After this episode I considered donating my body to the IHA for the first time.

[@LucyMorningstar999]

🤣😂🤣

[@BigChessFan]

I just made the same comment just to scroll down and realize I was 7 months late :(

[@angieelliott8741]

I just got to the part in the Frankenstein novel where the monster has just been reanimated. To get to this point, Victor worked for months. I wonder what other "materials" he used to preserve them??? I think the focus of the story was really about abandonment, and how it could effect yours and the lives around you. I think the Frankenstein Chronicles, although a short series did a good job with the "solution" they used shortly after death to reanimate. Also Penny Dreadful's version of the"first" monster was so amazingly tragic and well acted. Frankenstein is still one of my favorite stories. Thank you for the awesome video! Just found this channel via my husband. I love y'all!!! Speaks to my first chosen profession, pathology and or funerary services.

[@anusheeltiwari]

When he first proposed of demonstrating that whether you can mix and match body parts, my first response was, man that is disrespectful but when he said that they are great ful and respectful to all the individuals who donated and will not be literally toying with them, I knew I subscribed to the right channel. Great job guys!

[@chrisk2426]

The video I never knew I needed. God, I love this channel.

[@ScumfuckMcDoucheface]

haha I definitely agree, the detail and depth with which he really thoight this one out was both somewhat surprising as well as super fuckin' enjoyable haha =) oh ya got some schmutz on yer nose there, eh? haha

[@chrisk2426]

@@ScumfuckMcDoucheface 😂 Shmutz. 😆 And I agree, I live for this channel. I shared it on FB and my family was like, "WTF?!" They don't get it.

[@ScumfuckMcDoucheface]

@@chrisk2426 really eh? my mom has been an RN my whole life in emergency medicine as well as home health care in inner city Detroit haha so growing up discussion of the dead/death and injury were common dinner table conversation... so I've always had an interest in anatomy/medicine and the sciences... I totally get why you, me and a lot of others absolutely love this channel =)

[@ewwmorons]

Anatomy, literature, sci-fi, and Canavero's head transplant plan all in one video: this is my favorite episode yet!

[@Fandom_Junkie]

If I'm remembering correctly, I think Mary Shelley originally told the Frankenstein story as a scary story with a few of her friends and they liked it so much they said she should make it into a book. There's your fun fact of the day

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

One of those friends was none other than Lord Byron.

[@potatojoe370]

During the summer that never was. Most people had become melancholy and darker in mood. They seem to be holed up in a villa or manor house riding it out. Lord Byron and a few other mentionable people all boozed up and bored but also concerned.

[@jh9391]

See the movie, "Gothic." Gabriel Byrne! Julian Sands!

[@carol242]

As always do with dignity and caring. First class channel. Enjoy learning every viewing. Keep up the good work.

[@edmaori5601]

Igor :- Abby someone... Doc Frankenstein :- Abby who..? Igor :- Abby Normal....

[@kirkwahmmett1666]

To clarify it is pronounced Fronk-en steen

[@MrTaxiRob]

@@kirkwahmmett1666 and EYE-gore

[@eddierayvanlynch6133]

FRAU BLÜCHER!!! 👀

[@miriambarnett2782]

Love this line. My favorite line in the movie!

[@edmaori5601]

@@miriambarnett2782 Iconic classic movie right from the start

[@kristjanjonsson7723]

I've always been curious about the "head in a jar" from Futurama. Could that, or a version of that, be plausible in the future? Where we could "collect" peoples living heads and keep them alive, and in a way where they could react to their surroundings in a intellectual way 🤔

[@haleyedwards4253]

I wanna see this vid

[@kristjanjonsson7723]

@@haleyedwards4253 me to 😃

[@MuhammadHanif-bx4pb]

it's unethically possible. look for severed dog head videos! it kept alive and responsive by hooking it to a heart lung machine.

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

@@MuhammadHanif-bx4pb absolutely disgusting and horrendous. Such experiments should be done using homosapiens.

[@Peter_-ys6hc]

@@MuhammadHanif-bx4pb poor dog, couldnt they just do it to an animal nobody likes, like a redditor.

[@DaiBowie]

Interestingly you can take a recently deceased person’s body part like the face, hands, legs etc. and put them on someone else but it has to be done quickly after death and it’s really complicated with 50/50 chances of not working or slightly not working.

[@epizzle9232]

Yes and then have the fear of rejection forever, as well as having to take immunosuppressants the rest of your life

[@matthewhavemercyonmeimasin1500]

​@@epizzle9232 yes ... and if Im not mistaken you ll only have up to 8 hours to restore the blood circulation 2 the detached body part(s) (limbs ,legs etc) - after that ... it will be useless ... though the brain is much more sensitive ...as it will start dying in the 1st minute w/out blood circulation.

[@plnkfloydian7814]

Could y’all eventually do a breakdown of the leg from the knee down? I’m really interested to see the calf muscles and tibialis anterior and the underlying bone, ligament structure. I think seeing it will give me a better understanding vs just looking at a skeletal model in a book.

[@kimberliepoppleton6322]

Where's my chippy ?

[@Rhegmatogenous]

I am a huge Frankenstein fan, so this was a surprise to see in my subscription feed

[@Mrsakris]

Truly interesting! I’ve never taken the time to really think about this process much. Primarily for the reasons you’ve pointed out. It’s so complicated that it’s not a possible endeavor. Pointing out just a few of the “whys” drives it home. Let it remain fiction!

[@marleenkinsella9457]

Fantastic I just found you guys and I can’t stop watching…Such an amazingly interesting and educational channel!! After the first short clip I saw I was like where is this place? I want to go work there! I bet you guys learn new amazing things about the human body everyday and I am so incredibly happy that you are sharing all of this knowledge with me! Thank you so much!!🤩🤩

[@_P0tat07_]

I’d love to see more videos on limb transplants. I think it’s absolutely fascinating to be able to receive a donor limb and have it function (with enough physical therapy) I’d love to also see you explore microsurgery techniques. How nerves, blood vessels, veins, etc are stitched together.

[@jaycee8624]

I love learning about biology and science in general, and frankenstein is my absolute favorite novel. I’ve always wondered about the attainment and assembly of the various body parts. Really appreciate the fact that all of this is accurate to the novel and just how insightful this video was. thank you!

[@latoxica9493]

Few books have shaken me as much as Frankenstein, it was like seeing the thing that scare me the most about man kind in one single book. Same with The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ did this to me. On another note, you might enjoy ‘Animal Farm’. It is less gruesome and more political/intellectual yet just as disturbing/fascinating.

[@zarikajacobs4373]

When I was a teen, we had to study The Picture of Dorian Gray. It unsettled me so much that I just never attended class for the whole semester.

[@maryqueentelen8458]

I know that this out of the topic but I really appreciate the way you speak. Your voice and the way you roll with the words is so clear! I usually put captions/subtitles when I watch videos because English is not my first nor second language. So I have difficulty understanding the way other people speak English. But with you, I don't need any of that!

[@thejillykilly]

The characters are in fact vegetarian- “My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.”

[@jungkooksfootrest7699]

good anyone who isnt vegan is a murderer

[@aniquinstark4347]

@@jungkooksfootrest7699 Also the guy in your profile isn't vegan

[@95rav]

@@jungkooksfootrest7699 stupid thing to say: as a baby you breast feed.; you consumed animal product; human product; you are a cannibal like everyone else.

[@toshineon]

@@jungkooksfootrest7699 That attitude isn't how to win over people to your cause. It probably does the opposite, actually.

[@jungkooksfootrest7699]

@@95rav breast milk isnt not vegan and also u can stop eating it like if u did it as a baby why continue???

[@TheOriginalTitanSlayer]

I just started EMT school, and this is all really fascinating. Thank you for the content.

[@pmbluemoon]

Thank you for the wonderful story, lesson and noting all the side intricacies that her book originally didn't really need to deal with back when she first wrote it! I loved how you tied it all together (no pun intended!) And as always thank you to all the donors out there who have provided their bodies for education as well. 👍

[@millenniumf1138]

This is fascinating!! It makes me think about how complex the idea of replacing a brain would be... Basically impossible with our current understanding. But it does make me wonder, what if we had the ability to make nanobots that could infiltrate the brain, attach to a single neuron, analyze the function of the neuron, and then replace the neuron. It's something that's come up in science fiction, but it would be interesting to see a video about how plausible it would be (I'm not optimistic, but it would be a fascinating topic).

[@AllisonT111]

I was wondering if y'all were ok since there was no new video during the week 😄 Great idea/topic! Happy Halloween 🎃🎃🎃

[@MIKA-dk9cr]

I’m glad I found this channel cuz I’m learning alot

[@dingokidneys]

I love "Young Frankenstein". So great but he simplified things significantly by using a whole body and replacing just the brain. Also check out "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" episode "Some assembly required" for something more like what's described here. I still would like to donate my body, if they'd have it. With all the bit about treating bodies with respect, they could wear my gluteous maximus as a hat if it helped teach students to save lives.

[@RedactedATS]

Would you be able to do detail on the knee, specifically the ligaments and how ruptured ligaments are reconstructed, eg. ACL reconstruction using transplanted tissue from the person's hamstring? Cheers

[@eugeneaniar7232]

Very interesting, i hope you will also make analysis on the effect of cryochambers on the human body since there are some who undergo on those believing to "pause" death and be awaken in the future when technology is more advance to address their health issues...

[@jrschroeder3758]

Thanks for the indepth thought and investigation put into this video. I love your videos because you discuss subjects to us in easy to understand language and do not speak like we're ignorant. I'm interested in videos of what PICA can do. I had an issue of eating Vapo Rub a few years ago. I would freeze it and eat a jar about every 2-3 days. To me it tasted just like Spearmint. Also, could you possibly do a segment on gastric bypass and how the digestive function is altered and malabsorption affects the body. Thank you

[@amandas.6500]

Great video! I never thought of the different blood types. I guess Frankenstein would have ABO+- blood. I also love Mel Brooks movie!

[@StevenCohen-s4y]

I am a big fan of all your videos. I stumbled upon them when, after 40 years since college, I finally took a course on human anatomy and physiology that I always wanted to take. I am impressed how you explain the ethical handling of donated bodies. This should extends to any creature. I don't recall my tenth grade biology teacher ever making that point when we dissected a frog. Of course many years have passed and I just might not remember. As a teacher myself working with high school students, I do entertain the possibility that he did and I just wasn't paying attention. I know if I was teaching the class, it is a point, that I would drive home. It is our responsibility to teach ethical, responsible and respectful behavior to the next generation.

[@ClaudiaArnold]

It's been a few years since I read the book, but was it not that Frankenstein stumbled into a few chemistry lectures and later found a chemical procedure to reverse decay? To be fair to the author, the second law of thermodynamics had not been formulated in her lifetime. Frankenstein worked clandestinely on his project for several weeks

[@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938]

He always seemed as much an alchemist as much as anything else...Dr. Frankenstein...of course chemistry was really not a separate discipline in 1818...it was still the age of "natural philosophy"

[@elliotmapp-best9990]

Great thought provoking hyperthetically classical approach to learning. Bringing a rational medical approach to such an iconic screenplay in its absurd yet intriguing interplay of lessons is truly inspirational.... well done Doc...!!!

[@gracecubar6088]

This is more interesting topic ever.Keep safe and God bless.

[@superman1081]

There are some old videos on KZbin, where they surgically remove the head of dogs and monkeys. Where the created some type of contraption to keep pumping blood to the head. And the head would be responsive to external stimuli (such as touch and loud noises). They also, transplanted the upper body of a smaller dog, to the neck of a larger dog. And they seem to have survived. Of course this could not have been performed anywhere in the U.S. Looking at it, it appears to have taken place somewhere in Europe, (Eastern, perhaps).

[@SpiralAnimationssssss]

Considering the original story having frankenstein (a lone young adult) put together this creature in his college dorm room, I'm very impressed with how well it went considering the very complicated process

[@superman1081]

You seem to have touched upon each of my comments during your video! Awesome!

[@luiggiparise8301]

Me: Donates the body to science Science: Let's play jigsaw w him!

[@kevoZj]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jesuschrist4185]

@@kevoZj you black or something????

[@Dontaskwhy1]

What-?

[@luiggiparise8301]

@@jesuschrist4185 What are you talking about dude?

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video. Excellent video.

[@Hana.Behl-Lecter]

The sock thing just tickled my funnies a bit. Severed leg? Fine. But I draw the line at toenails!!

[@Koalabalaa]

I love how we're getting a step by step guide in case we wanna try

[@NotContinuum]

What about storing the bodies at subzero temperatures with something like DMSO? We've been storing cells at -80C with DMSO for decades.

[@msdos32]

Issue is heat transfer. Individual cells you can do it quick enough without damaging them. But when you have so many layers of cells you run into an issue where the cooling fluid simply cannot reach some or many of those cells fast enough and they just end up destroyed

[@NotContinuum]

@@msdos32 Pipe it through the circulatory system? That will go to every cell fast. I knew a guy who wanted to marinate a whole pig with this method.

[@fariesz6786]

note to self: drop plans for hooman chimæra and concentrate on the giant mecha duck project

[@deweyharmon4666]

You guys are absolutely awesome!! I'm so glad I stumbled across your channel about a year ago, been addicted ever since, thank you for all your great work in anatomy..

[@WonderGeology]

Mary and her husband Percy Shelley were vacationing in 1816 with Lord Byron in his vacation home in Switzerland. The weather was dreadful the entire summer and the trio with a few other people, including Mary's sister-in-law (who was pregnant by Lord Byron) sat around telling ghost stories, talking about the events of the day and discussing many hypotheses on nature. This would include the nature poems of Erasmus Darwin (Charles Darwin's grandfather). Lord Bryon proposed a contest that each would write their own ghost story and the vision for Frankenstein was born. The reason the weather was so bad? The year before (April 1815), a huge volcano in Indonesia called Tamboro blew up! It ejected over 40 cubic miles of ash, dust, sulfur and other gases into the atmosphere which quickly encircled the earth. The next year (1816) was known as "The Year Without A Summer." The average global temperature fell by about 1 degree F. Freezing temperatures and snow (yes SNOW!) in June and July in North America and Europe and very high monsoon rainfalls in India and China caused crops to fail world wide. Famines and political upheaval ensued. The world was in chaos. It was perfect timing for Mary's book!

[@raisinbran1421]

Thanks for actually getting the name right a lot of misconceptions with Frankenstein’s monster is that people just call him Frankenstein which if you know the story is just completely wrong. Idk that’s just a little nitpick of mine, have a nice day!

[@karensimons6885]

Well, good! It is too complex to have a shred of possibility! Well..maybe just one shred! This is very good news. Our designer did amazing work. Everything fits and works. We do not go into the woods fearing Frankie II. Halloween is a sound choice for where to park this story. Thank you for all you do!

[@95rav]

"Our designer did amazing work. Everything fits and works." Yeah... tell that to people with deformities, disabilities, disease and cancer...

[@toescolorfulworld4767]

This was a great idea for a video! Very thorough and informative. Probably my favorite video so far!

[@cinaedus8781]

I love the video and I don't want to rain on any parades, it's very educational and I understand that _Frankenstein_ is just a springboard for an anatomy lesson, but I do just want to nitpick that Shelley, as unspecific as she is, never claims that the creature was made using dead bodies. Frankenstein vaguely speaks of "materials" in reference to both of the two bodies that he creates, and says nothing more. The grave-robbing is mentioned in the context of preparatory research, and _could_ be where he got these materials, but I like to think this was done more to augment his knowledge than actually as material; my theory is that the creature is more or less entirely artificial, made from scratch, though still biological. "Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?" That's the full grave robbery quote, which mentions the grave-robbing right next to cruel experiments done on animals, rather than putting it next to material-gathering, which is mentioned elsewhere. It also refers to the creature as "clay", a word that brings the mind more to a golem than to any reanimated or undead being. This is also supported by the fact that there is never any mention of seams or anything similar in the description of the monster. "I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter." Here, once again, the wording suggests that the being is not cobbled together from human bodies, but rather, it suggests that Frankenstein's great discovery is _animation,_ not reanimation. However, perhaps the most telling line in the whole description of Frankenstein's process is this: "I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption." Frankenstein claims here that he is not capable of reanimating dead bodies! In fact, the book would be a very different one if he could. "Oh no! My best friend Henry Clerval is dead by the hands of my monster! Not anymore!" _zap,_ "Oh no, my wife/adopted sister Elizabeth is dead by the hands of the monster! Eh, not anymore!" _zap._ The monster is often compared to a dead body in description, having dry skin, and the complexion of a mummy, but I think that's just to emphasize how horrible it is in appearance, considering one of the main points of the story is that it is because of its monstrous visage that it becomes embittered with humanity.

[@theanatomylab]

I understand your thoughts on this, and spent some time pondering this myself. As you say, Shelley was indeed vague. However, it was this line from the book that caused me to believe that not only were dead bodies used in some capacity, animal parts were as well (I decided to leave that out of the video). "The dissecting room and slaughter-house furnished many of my materials...". I agree that the entirety of the creature may not have been made from dead bodies, and you made some fantastic points, but I also believe that some of the creature was definitely made with human remains. Based on Frankensteins "ah-ha" moment in the charnal houses observing decaying flesh, I believe that corpses were used to create the "Monster". That however, is an assumption. Still, I stand by the above quote, and firmly believe that human remains were used in the creatures creation. Thanks for the detailed and thoughtful comment!

[@marianoetcheverry3125]

Yes, almost twenty years ago I read it and made similar observations: vains, nerves and other minor components of dead bodies and the whole body molded in some inorganic clay. And a spark of life which could have either chemical or electrostatic origin. I think both of the interpretations are rights. Great video and good comments!

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

I saw it the same way as you - mix of carnal tissues and clay à la O.G. Golem from Jewish folklore.

[@notarobot5946]

Great analysis!

[@markos2587]

i am an italian guy who lives in italy and i always follow your videos .. thanks guys

[@J3point14]

if we could somehow tap into the whole stem cell thing and hack the body's healing mechanisms (granted it doesn't have embalming fluid in it) I'm sure it could be possible but it would take a substantial amount of time for the composite body to heal ( assuming blood typing is correct, no rejection etc)

[@maccurtis730]

Docter Frankenstein: "I had no idea how much work this would be"!

[@FennecTheRabbit]

I should add that embalming for the 19th century was done with arsenic. And refrigeration was not a thing.

[@caityrhiann7167]

Is it wrong and weird that I find these videos so relaxing and help me sleep?

[@elijahtaboy]

3:04 but you already made a video explaining why zombies are not possible, wouldn't the same concepts apply? I would be more interested in if dead tissue can be regenerated by living tissue.

[@theanatomylab]

Rigor mortis and overall tissue decomposition would still be an insurmountable issue, unless the tissue is kept at an appropriate temperature, as I mention in the video. Limb replantations and organs transplants occur often these days, showing that this is an entirely different scenario than undead zombies. Zombies are creatures that are mobile and somewhat conscious, despite nothing being done to prevent decomposition. Necrotic (decaying) tissue can't be regenerated by any known means. This is why necrotic tissue must be removed when transplants occur. Instead, cellular division from living cells must occur to replace the lost necrotic tissue. If the tissue is simply cooled and the procedure happens quickly enough, the cells don't die and become necrotic. Instead their metabolic processes slow down immensely, but there's no need for reanimation since the cells are still alive. As you may recall from the zombie video, once autolysis (lysosomal degradation of the cell) kicks in, the cell is destroyed beyond repair. Even if the tissue looks salvageable, there's no protein functionality at the microscopic level. Also, ATP is essential for cellular mechanisms to occur. Zombies aren't breathing, which means oxygen isn't present to create enough ATP for overall functionality. However, if the tissue is cooled enough (as they do with limb and organ transplantation and replantation), the mitochondria can remain intact, and once oxygen-rich blood flow has been returned to the area, everything can operate as normal. This doesn't occur with zombies in any shape, way, or form. In the end, it comes down to whether or not the appropriate step were taken to prevent autolysis. However, if these steps were taken with someone assumed to have died (body is cooled, but not frozen) and once warmed they "come to life", I would argue they were never dead, meaning they don't classify as a zombie. I hope this helps!

[@jimwednt1229]

It's about time someone did this on YT . Thanks bro!

[@shrippie-4214]

5:49 Its sad how people think they have a right not to be uncomfortable

[@kevoZj]

At the same time denying us our chance to explore the metatarsal of the cadavers.

[@iHEARTTiMMiJANE]

Can't believe I sat through this entire video & was entertained throughout the entire thing. This is a PROCESSSS, my goodness.

[@AshleyRajam]

Theoretically, you can replace most organs, so a Cyborg Frankenstein is definitely possible.

[@zoeronco6159]

So it would be a robot

[@ghostmotor2429]

Hi! I am very grateful for all these educational episodes. I was thinking if it's still this period of covid-19 I was thinking of making an episode about what and how exactly the olfactory senses are affected. now I have covid-19 and I don't feel the taste or smell at all. Thank you very much!

[@fendoroid3788]

What you expected: 🧟‍♂️ What you got: ☕

[@ezrea9313]

Cool! Ever since I read Frankenstein many years ago, I've wondered what it would take to actually do it. Morbid curiosity is quite something... Unrelated but my human anatomy professor loves y'all and your channel! We've watched many of your videos in class and I was so excited when he showed one for the first time! My squeamish friend sitting next to me was not as enthusiastic though 😂

[@vetus_memoriae]

I'm doing a "science in literature" project, I'll get some ideas from here and make sure to give you credit, if you don't mind

[@vetus_memoriae]

Currently, I'm doing the comparison from Frankenstein's science and real life science, adding inspiration from Mary Shelley (Agrippa and Galvinism for instance). It will be really helpful to add more details on how this book portrays science differs from hoe it would apply on real life. I'll do the same with The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Invisible Man, Herbert West: Reanimator, and Sherlock Holmes. Of course, I'll pay more attention to Frankenstein, as it is the "science in literature" portrait per excellence. It's a short project in Spanish, so I doubt I can share it, but I'll probably translate it to English just to share it. My objective is not only to get a good mark, but to share my research on this topic I love so much. I hope my English is not too crappy! Have a good day!

[@theanatomylab]

Sounds interesting! Good luck with the project!

[@mammathanos5432]

This was great . Once again another fantastic video. Thank you guys

[@anonomooose]

There’s something innately disturbing about seeing someone handle a brain. Maybe there’s some sort of instinct that makes you understand that the brain(and other structures) isn’t supposed to be exposed

[@lucasmendoza7576]

I remember from a very young age I was obsessed with the concept of a Frankenstein's monster. I remember when we would go to seafood restruants and be left with left-over crab shells, I would tell my parents I wanted to keep them to build a "Franken-Crab." Nowadays, I am more knowledgable of biology and now know that building a living creature like model set from spare parts is nye-impossible. Life, all the way down to a microbiological level, is of such immense intricacy and complexity, that one could never just cobble something together and expect it to tick.

[@eddierayvanlynch6133]

It's pronounced "Frahnk-en-Shteen" 👻👹💀🎃😈🤘😎 🎶I ain't got no body🎶

[@_phoenix2.076]

Happy Halloween IOHA and everyone! 🎃👻

[@smrfs]

Frankenstein is one of my absolute favorite books, I can read it over and over and find something new to think about each time. This video gave me a more practical, anatomical idea of how he could’ve done it. Especially with the quality of medical and surgical knowledge at the time …yikes 😬

[@kinginfinitygod2077]

A excellent respectful and educational interesting video! I love y’all channel.

[@theanatomylab]

Much appreciated!

[@musicaldramaqueen]

Loved this episode. Though it’s sad how concerned we are with the ethics of doing this to humans, but not to living animals which is done 😢

[@Lazymotion]

Bacteria and Viruses also just wants to survive and we create this coalition against them You are also against them, Don't lie about it

[@pierrelecaillou6966]

Totally fantastic..... I had no idea of the complexities of re-animating the human body!!! thanks, today I learned!

[@maybecrossing]

Lol I really appreciate the disclaimer

[@heintz256]

Why do people dislike videos that are entertaining and educational?

[@kaths_acc]

After watching his videos I feel smart for some reason and I'm not too smart

[@vernzvernz7884]

I love all your videos but this is my fave so far.

[@theanatomylab]

Wow, thank you! Mine too!

[@vernzvernz7884]

@@theanatomylab A big fan from the Philippines 🥰🥰🥰

[@shriicarnage]

Waiting waiting Then..... Oh 15minutes ago institute of human anatomy posted a video Me clicked with light speed 😁😁😁

[@daddytomandfriends]

I absolutely love you're channel. Every episode always peak my interest.

[@DamoBloggs]

I'm a self-made man... just wish I hadn't lost the instructions!

[@gretasimmons8987]

🤣😆😂

[@damonplant9962]

I wouldn’t be mad at *most* of my body being used to build a Frankenstein’s monster

[@the_mlg_gamers__makers3923]

Thanks for the tutorial! I will be building 1 my self.

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

Well. As a fantasy writer, I have learned that all three of the characters I have that I consider Frankestein's Monster-ish, are in fact much, much more reasonable than an actual Frankenstein's monster. To be fair, as a bio person I already knew that and designed them that way on purpose because I can only stand so much suspinsion of disbelief in my own writing (even though it's fantasy and you could make a valid case for magicing away a lot of stuff) so I try to keep things at least fairly scientifically accurate as possible. Also worth noting that all three of these characters hail from different storylines (well, one's actually just a loose character concept not yet attached to a storyline yet) and are all recognized as beings that are incredibly rare and were incredibly difficult to create, not something you'd expect to see just walking down the street. The one that's just a loose concept is actually undead, which actually circumvents a lot of stuff as this being's basically held togeather by magic and willpower, rather than being a functioning living organism. Basically, they got killed, but refused to let that be the end things and managed to successfully posess their own corpse. The corpse is essentially a puppet while the being possessing it is fueled primarily by the life energy of those who die around it (or in a pinch food, which requires temporarily forcing the digestive system to function again, while normally it just sits there.) Whenever something gets destroyed, the being replaces it with a body part from some dead person, resulting in a very patchwork appearence. Since the body is essentially a pile of magically preserved dead flesh, there isn't immune system rejection of the new parts since the immune system's dead. That said, the fact that this being's incredibly old, and trying to keep everything funcitoning on magic rather than relying on actual bodily systems, means that their ability to protect their own mind and maintain their memory is weakoned because you can only divide your focus into so many things at once. As a result, they don't remember anything from their life, when they actually died, or much in the way of longterm memory at all, and sometimes experience personality changes based on who's energy they've been absorbing. The other two are both living people (not corpses) who were expiramented on, and have had various parts of theing bodies replaced with peices taken from living donors, so no reactivation of completely dead tissues, and the number of different donors involved was minimized. As there was a skilled healing magic user in each set of surgery teams, attachment of limbs and organs was a made a lot easier do to being able to attach them magically rather than stitching them togeather. (Worth noting that healing magic users with that skill level are rare in both settings, which is part of why they're rare and difficult to create.) In both cases almost all of the central nervous system was completely left alone do to how delicate it is (one of them did have their eyes replaced, and I've been debating on whether to have thier olfactory bulb replaced as well, but that seems like it'd be to easy to mess up.) In both cases there were some parts used from different fantasy species (one only recieved peices from closely related hominids, the other got a couple parts from non-hominids that can shapeshift into humanoid forms,) which does increase the risk of organ rejection A LOT (especially in the case of the latter,) but this was able to be minimized through a lot immune-suppression drugs and some magic-based immune suppresion. And both characters were indeed kept in very long, medically induced comas while everything was fusing and healing, and were closely monitered for signs of infection due to all the immune suppression. It's also worth noting that the character with shapeshifter parts does have some autoimmune issues.

[@meowjakx3]

The first and last sentence contradicting. Lol. My characters are much more reasonable than Frankenstein monster to one character has shape-shifting body parts.

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

@@meowjakx3 I'm sorry, but how exactly is a character within a setting that's already established as having magic that modify the properties of living flesh being able to use this to shapeshift LESS reasonable than cobbling together an entire person from multiple dead people and forcing the completely dead cells to return to normal functions without any issues or massive immune response without relying on any sort of magic system to circumvent any of the issues involved in this process?

[@sarahjohnson9193]

I love how informative this video is. I've learnt alot (as always) Thankyou.

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