Japanese Unit 731 gained worldwide notoriety for being a laboratory and a research station in which the medical, biological and chemical experiments were often performed on live humans (mostly prisoners of war from China or Korea). Although inhumanely cruel, the experiments resulted in incredible discoveries that fast-forwarded our understanding of the human body.
The price that human guinea pigs captured to serve as subjects of these experiments paid was way too high. Still, isn’t it just fascinating that doctors from Unit 731 got to test some of the wickedest ideas imaginable on live subjects? I mean, the scientific community could speculate all they want about what would happen if surgeons removed a stomach of a living person and attached the esophagus to the intestines, but only Unit 731 could provide actual findings? Same goes for amputating patient’s hand and foot and reattaching the hand to the ankle and the foot to the wrist. Or injecting horse urine into human kidneys. Or finding out how long it would take before a human spun in a centrifuge dies.
Many Unit 731 experiments performed on live humans were attended by medical students as part of their curriculum. Rumor has it that experiments on live young women attracted the largest audiences. Especially if the experiment involved the dissection of reproductive organs.
Photo above is one of the rare, decent quality pictures of Unit 731 experiments. It shows the aftermath of a dissection performed on a woman who was alive at the beginning of the experiment. It doesn’t look like exploration of female reproductive organs was the subject of this dissection, however the entire front of the woman’s torso is open which must have been absolutely excruciating for this guinea pig.
- excerpt from author of bestgore.com
