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In speaking of vivisection Pawlow argued, that until a law is
passed against hunting no word should be said against vivisection.
He is not willing to discuss the matter until that point is settled.
With regard to Bachmetjew’s idea of freezing individuals Pawlow says
he wants to be frozen and thinks it would be a good plan to have a
city cellar where they could freeze men for fifty years and then thaw
them out. He wished he could be frozen and thawed out again at the
end of fifty years. He personally suggested the idea of freezing
individuals to Bachmetjew.
It is almost impossible to follow Professor Pawlow in his great
variety of ideas and rapid conversation. His brilliancy and his
intense energy is shown in everything he takes hold of. He certainly
is a very remarkable man. One can easily see why he stands so high
in Russia. Pawlow has been a professor in the Military Medical Acad¬
emy and the Institute for Experimental Medicine, and is also connected
with another research laboratory. He goes to one laboratory in the
morning and another in the afternoon. He is a very busy man but is
intending to give up some of his duties. He says that some of the
conditions at the Military Medical Academy have been quite intolerable
and as he finds his position there very difficult, he wants to sever
his connection with it.