Transfer The Brain By Carl Dorning

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In the start of the book, Dr. Carl Dorning expressed his recent success of his experiment to transfer the brain of Professor Marlowe so he can continue his work, as he is currently in a bad health condition and could pass away very soon. He also announced he will be testing it on animals soon. While Marlowe has some doubts, he agrees to do it. Following that, while going to deposit a check giving to him, Dorning meets a kid named Miguel on the streets when kids were begging for money. Within the next day, Marlowe coughed up blood and Dorning rushed him to the hospital. On the way there, he noticed that Miguel was laying on the streets, and offered to take him to the hospital with Marlowe. After getting stitches, Dorning offers Miguel a chance to live with the professor, but he must be the recipient of the professor’s genius whenever he dies, which he accepts. …show more content…
Dorning learns the transfer of brains to the animals has succeed and becomes excited as these were some of the first true results he has gotten. While Marlowe is excited to hear this, he is saddened to learn that the boy will lose his personality and be overtaken by the professor. During this evening, the professor had passed on. Dorning now starts the surgery to transfer the brain and had gone as planned. At first, Miguel failed to remember anything, but within the next couple weeks, he had a dream that he was the professor. This turned out to be the very memory that ad been broughten back, and showed the success of the

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