We could save hundreds of lives.

3 seconds sound clip from the The Curse of Frankenstein movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:13:35.425 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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(Water bubbling in Frankenstein's lab)

- Paul, it's alive. Paul, we've done it!

- There seems to be a definite lag between the cardiac reaction and the first visible signs of life. That would be the time necessary for the first heartbeats to circulate the bloodstream throughout the entire body.

- If we could delay or prolong the period in which the body is apparently dead while the heart is alive, we'd have a living body with only the barest life-spark present.

- Think what that would mean when it came to performing major surgery!

- We could save hundreds of lives.

- Reducing shock to a minimum, no loss of blood.

- Victor, the Medical Federation meets next month in Berne. Can we have our paper ready by then?

- We could. But we're not going to.

- Why not? The Federation doesn't meet again for another year. Why wait that long?

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