Daybreakers: medical vampirism, living without a heartbeat, and blood substitutes
Classical vampires\u2026? \n\n
And is this a horror movie? Better than the sparkly Twilight ones.
\n\n Blood-squirting lizards \n\nJust because that\u2019s awesome
\n\n Blood substitutes \n\nSubstitutes 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.
\n\nIt\u2019s got plasmatic electrolytes
\n\nIt\u2019s what bodies crave
\n\n Blood transfusion \n\nBlood types and our developing understanding during the 17th and 19th centuries. Carlos Lammerstammer\u2019s 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.
\n\n Vampire blood flow \n\nWe\u2019re 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.
\n\n Medical vampirism \n\n\u201cIn case of human frailty, break glass.\u201d With a \u201ccure\u201d for vampirism available, the ensuring rise of using vampirism as a cure for deadly ailments. But you only get to use it once, so make it count! Connections between vampire lore and the possibility of parabiosis.
\n\n Downsides to vampirism \n\nBlood isn\u2019t really usually considered delicious. Ethical concerns with surviving on human blood UNTIL the \u201cblood substitute\u201d is developed.
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