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Item #: SCP-170-FR

Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-170 is to be contained in 40cm×40cm×20cm box with a safety glass lid allowing it's consultation (in order to prevent destruction of SCP-170 by an experiment subject). SCP-170 is to be stored at Site-Aleph. It's access is only to be permitted to personnel of Level 3 or higher.

At all time, testing of SCP-170 is to take place in a room with following prerequisites:

  • The room must be soundproofed and closed.
  • The room must contain no tool permitting writing or engraving.
  • The room must be monitored by two cameras. These must be placed so that SCP-170 is not visible to either camera.

Any reproduction SCP-170's content (be it written, vocalized, photographic or other) is to be immediately destroyed by Foundation members with no knowledge of French language. The author of said reproduction is to be immediately terminated.

In the event of involuntary examination of SCP-170's content by a Foundation personnel, and if the said personnel show no intention to propagate SPC-170's content, a class-C amnesiac is to be administered, followed by 10 days of quarantine and a psychological assessment. If no symptoms of SCP-170 knowledge appears, the personnel may resume his standard activities.

Any experimentation on SCP-170 requires approval from a personnel member with Level 4 clearance or higher […].
Since 24/02/2016, any experimentation on SCP-170 now requires the current site director’s approval.

Description: SCP-170 is a copy of the 3rd volume of Anatomie Descriptive by Marie François Xavier Bichat in a dilapidated state. Most of the pages are annotated by an unknown author (believed to be Nicolas Felma, see Addendum : Recovery Information). Despite the fact that the annotations are mostly illegible, some of them have been identified as non-relevant assertions about the workings of the human body. The annotation giving SCP-170 its unusual property is located in the left margin of page 72. This annotation is composed of 15 lines of legible french text.

Any human understanding the content of said text by any mean (be it the reading of SCP-170, repetition of its content by a another subject, recording, etc…) is affected by SCP-170’s anomalous properties.
From this point, the subject's autonomic nervous system (referred as ANS from now on) will disappear, progressively replaced by the subject's conscientious mental faculties. ANS's functions include -but are not limited to- heartbeat, hormonal secretions, digestion…
Surprisingly, loss of consciousness lead to complete recovery of the ANS's functions until recovery of consciousness, preventing the subject's death during sleep and fainting.

The subsequent list details the successive effects observed in subjects exposed to SCP-170, as well as the approximated time of appearance.

10 to 15 minutes : The subject acquires control of his iris opening, regardless of ambient luminosity (potentially leading to the partial destruction of cornea in case of high luminosity and excessive iris opening).

30 to 90 minutes : The subject loses most of its natural reaction to pain. This function does not seem to be replaced by the subject.

1 to 2 hours : The ANS ceases bladder control, leading to its relaxation with the ensuing consequences (the subject usually recovers its control within a few minutes).

4 to 5 hours : The subject show respiratory difficulties for a few seconds previous to resumption of normal respiration.

8 to 15 hours : The ANS ceases to regulate the liver, leading to loss of consciousness among the majority of subjects. In the absence of any adequate anatomical knowledge, 15% of the subjects decease due to extreme corporeal stress induced by sudden glycemic changes caused by the subject's failure maintain proper equilibrium.

17 to 29 hours : The sudden relaxation of blood vessels leads to loss of consciousness of the subject if he wasn't prepared (informed by a supervisor). In the absence of any adequate anatomical knowledge, 45% of the subjects suffer from a series of loss of consciousness due to unusual dilatation or contraction of blood vessels, followed by coma.

2 to 4 days : The ANS cease to trigger heartbeats, leading to cardiac arrest in 74% of the cases (100% if the subject wasn't prepared). Although this produces a loss of consciousness and resume of usual ANS behavior, in 20% of the cases the heart does not restart and require medical intervention. 52% of the subjects successfully take control of their heart after 1 to 3 cardiac arrests, while the other end up deceasing despite repeated medical interventions.

Every subject showed unease to those body modifications, showing signs of increasing anxiety and panic. The subjects report strong headaches (supposed due to the conscious effort required to maintain unconscious body functions) and extreme difficulties to sleep (supposed due to fear of stop of vital functions, although sleeping resumes ANS usual behavior). ██ suicides were reported during experiments. Surviving subjects were systematically terminated on the Ethics Committee’s orders.