The weirdest experiments performed throughout history

<p class&equals;"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start">Nicolae Minovici was a Romanian scientist who was obsessed with finding out what happens to the human body during a hanging&period; In fact&comma; he wrote an essay in which he analyzed almost 200 cases of people who had been hanged&comma; and the factors that influenced&comma; such as the type of knot of the rope&comma; the weight and even the gender of the person&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start">Minovici&comma; he was not happy with just « reading » about people who had been executed in this way&comma; he wanted to know how he really felt&comma; so &lpar;and to answer your question&rpar; he started a series of quite strange experiments and above all dangerous&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start">First he did some preliminary tests with a rope that did not contract&comma; he hung himself 6 times a few seconds to get used to it&comma; but as Minovici himself wrote in his notes&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start">« The pain was almost intolerable »<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-52172" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thebuzzly&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;06&sol;AAD--AB--FDB&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"The weirdest experiments performed throughout history" width&equals;"577" height&equals;"402" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start">Still&comma; he was determined to experience what it felt like to be hanged&comma; so he leveled up&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start">He and some of his collaborators put their heads in a regular contraction rope and asked an assistant to hang them&comma; twelve times in a row&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start">When describing previous experiments&comma; Minovici repeatedly apologizes saying that « despite all his courage&comma; he could not endure the experiment for more than three or four seconds&period; »<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start">Despite his efforts&comma; Minovici failed to find tangible results from his series of hangings&comma; which in total numbered almost a dozen &lpar;the only tangible thing to find would have been death&comma; I believe&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start">That is why I nominate Nicolas Minovici and his research as the strangest series of experiments in history&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;