Second Dog Is Restored to Life (Jan, 1935)
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jan, 1935
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Second Dog Is Restored to Life
ROBERT E. CORNISH, California biologist, who amazed the scientific world last spring by reviving a dog clinically put to death (Modern Mechanix and Inventions, July, 1934) recently repeated the success of his original experiment with even more encouraging results.
Lazarus IV, subject of the first successful experiment, has learned to crawl, bark, sit up on its haunches and consume nearly a pound of meat a day. The dog is blind and cannot stand alone, but results encouraged Dr. Cornish to launch a new series of experiments.
Recently Lazarus V was put to death with an overdose of ether. Half an hour after its breathing had stopped and five minutes after its heart was stilled, the animal was revived by means of chemicals and artificial respiration. Dr. Cornish, enthusiastic, has been reported as saying that Lazarus V returned nearer normalcy in four days than the other Lazarus in thirteen days.
Hi there,
I’ve really been enjoying your blog…espcially since we produce a 50s themed host show for various cable and online venues. You’ve got some great stuff here!
I did want to comment on the revival story, since Prelinger Archives (an open source for archival films) actually has an old 1940s short called the
Experiments in the Revival of Organisms.
http://www.archive.org/details/Experime1940
It is not for the squeamish or the hardcore animal lover as it shows in graphic detail how Russian scientists used artificial respirators and recycled blood to bring dogs (and dog parts) back to life. A fascinating short!
Cheers,
Butch R. Cleaver
Comment by Butch R. Cleaver — July 27, 2006 @ 9:04 am
Ever since the “science” of galvanism, I have been studying greatly into the research of Cornish and Robert J. White, as well as that of the Russian scientists who used oxygenated chemicals in the blood of dogs to revive them from the dead. The advances in science are getting all the more closer to that age old tale of Prometheus Unbound. What the alchemists dreamed of over a thousand years before, are occuring all the time today (invetro-fertilization; among other things). IF only Mary Shelley was alive today to see that the world is full of Victor Frankenstein’s, but its only been until recently that the public has learned of experiments done over 75 years ago.
Comment by Rufus Defibaugh — November 2, 2008 @ 12:16 pm