Decipher Scifi : The Show About How And Why
Daybreakers: medical vampirism, living without a heartbeat, and blood substitutes
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 0:32:41
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Classical vampires…? And is this a horror movie? Better than the sparkly Twilight ones. Blood-squirting lizards Just because that’s awesome Blood substitutes Substitutes for what part or what function of blood? Making a blood sword on our Conan episode. What blood is made of. What blood does for us biologically. It’s got plasmatic electrolytes It’s what bodies crave Blood transfusion Blood types and our developing understanding during the 17th and 19th centuries. Carlos Lammerstammer’s initial work distinguishing the blood types. Pre-modern medicine and the throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-who-dies method of medical research, e.g. injecting milk or ale or whiskey into the blood to see what happens. Vampire blood flow We’re told and see demonstrated that the vampires have no heartbeat, BUT - the other things we observe suggest that they do have blood flow, somehow. Intravenous vampire blood. Vampire blood extraction. Vampire peristalsis. Medical vampirism “In case of human frail