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TRANSPLANTATION OF LIMBS USAF ANIMAL RESEARCH w/ DOGS TESTING PROGRAM HISTORIC FILM (1962)

1962 · Short film · 32 min

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WARNING: this film contains disturbing imagery of animal testing. Discretion is advised. This film is not intended to be shown to minors. Made in 1962, this U.S. Air Force film shows experimental activities at the Hospital Lackland AFSC, part of the Aerospace Medical Division. At the time, a series of pioneering research activities were being conducted in the surgical-anethesiological laboratory, to determine how organs and other body parts could be transplanted. The problem of course is that the body rejects transplants, and a series of drugs were being developed for immunosuppression as a result. While some people viewing this film may find it disturbing that innocent animals were subjected to these experiments, the findings greatly improved transplantation and are indirectly responsible for many people living today who have had heart, liver and other types of transplants. The film shows a series of surgeries where one dog's leg is amputated, and transplanted on the body of another dog. Immunosuppression drugs are then used to keep the new limb from being rejected. The film is narrated by General James W. Humphryes, Jr., who was perhaps most famous as the director, Space Medicine, Manned Space Flight, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. As director, he was responsible for providing manned space flight medical advice to the associate administrator for Manned Space Flight and for planning, developing and promoting the Manned Space Flight: medical program. This…

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32 minutes
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Ephemeral Films

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