1935: DAYS OF EARLY RESUSCITATION EXPERIMENTATION

Dr. Robert E. Cornish, a 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 to normalcy in four days than the other Lazarus had in thirteen days.

Source: Modern Mechanix January, 1935

Submitted to NEMSM April 2007 by Valerie DeFrance, with permission from modernmechanix.com