BarnabusBlackoak
06-07-2007, 10:36 AM
*ZOMBIE DOGS ! I wonder if H.P. Lovecraft had heard of the Dr Cornish? What if Herbert West was based on him?
Last night after watching a rental DVD, in the extras I found a catalog of old movies. I made a list of the interesting sounding ones and checked them out at NetFlix to see if they carried them. Here is one of them :
LIFE RETURNS (1935)An eccentric scientist claims to have found the cure for death in this intriguing drama. Battling his own personal demons, such as his withdrawal from the medical world, and the death of his wife, he attempts to solve the world's problems with his miraculous experiments. Interspersed with real documentary footage from the infamous Dr. Robert E. Cornish (who claimed he could revive the dead), this fascinating feature is both poignant and passionate.
I then did a search for this Dr. Robert E. Cornish , this is what I found,
2 articles from TIME magazine written back in 1934:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,747260,00.html?promoid=googlep
Lazarus, Dead & AliveMonday, Mar. 26, 1934 Article ToolsPrintEmailReprints
Motionless on a white-covered table, small and insignificant in the harsh brilliance of overhead lamps, a fox terrier listed in the laboratory records as Lazarus II lay last week in a gloomy old building on the University of California's campus. White-clad figures moved in & out of the glare, watching the creature they had asphyxiated with ether and nitrogen. Lazarus II's heart stopped beating and he no longer breathed. His shoe-button eyes were glazed. Lazarus II was dead.
When six minutes had elapsed since the last heartbeat, sallow young Dr. Robert E. Cornish moved Lazarus II to a seesaw-like device called a teeterboard. There he opened one of the terrier's thigh veins to admit a saline solution saturated with oxygen and containing the heart stimulant adrenalin, the liver extract heparin and some canine blood from which the fibrin (coagulating substance) had been removed. While he breathed gustily into the dog's mouth, his assistant rubbed the kinky-haired little body, rocked it on the teeterboard. The stimulant solution sank in a glass gauge as it seeped into the corpse through five feet of rubber tubing. In a little while the gauge level stopped falling, began to rise in slow pulsations. Lazarus II gasped. His leg twitched. His heart began to beat, feebly at first, then like a triphammer, then normally. Lazarus II was alive.
For eight hours and 13 minutes the dog lay in an uneasy coma, whining, panting, barking, as if ridden by nightmares. Eager to speed recovery, Dr. Cornish injected some glucose solution. A blood clot formed and Lazarus II died again, this time for good and all.
Dr. Cornish selected another terrier, killed it and revived it the same way. But though no glucose was used the second dog also died a final death, after five hours. Said Dr. Cornish: "If the second animal had been dead two minutes instead of eight, I think it very likely he would have recovered. We will try the experiment again in a few days."
Thirty years ago Cleveland's famed Dr. George Washington Crile was experimenting on dead dogs with saline solutions, adrenalin, chest massages. Frequently Dr. Crile induced a resumption of the heartbeat after a few minutes' cessation, but the heart stopped again quickly because of blood clotting.
Two years ago the problem of resuscitation began to absorb Dr. Cornish. Last year he tried but failed to revive a man dead five hours of heart disease with oxygen mask and teeterboard, no injections. He had no better luck with two men dead six hours.
Despite last week's temporary success with dogs, Dr. Cornish will try to revive no more human corpses until he can nurse '"dead" animals to complete recovery. Onetime staffmember of the University of California's Institute of Experimental Biology, he has been carrying on with the aid of CWA funds.
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,930486,00.html
Dog No. 3Monday, Apr. 30, 1934 Article ToolsPrintEmailReprints One Month ago Dr. Robert E. Cornish, jet-haired young University of California researcher, killed two fox terriers with ether and nitrogen, brought them back to life (TIME, March 26). One dog lived a comatose life of eight hours, the other five hours. Last fortnight Dr. Cornish killed a third terrier. For dog No. 3, in addition to the oxygen-saturated saline solution, liver extract, adrenalin, canine blood and rocking board with which he resurrected Nos. 1 & 2, Dr. Cornish had a new help—gum-arabic, to keep the heart from overworking. Revived, the third dog clung to life day after day. Though unconscious, it blinked and stretched when a window-blind was raised, swallowed when food was forced between its lips, kicked when the reflex centre in its leg was tapped. Early this week it had been alive ten days. Working and watching grimly. Dr. Cornish hoped against hope that he would see dog No. 3 once more frisking about his sombre little laboratory.
Last night after watching a rental DVD, in the extras I found a catalog of old movies. I made a list of the interesting sounding ones and checked them out at NetFlix to see if they carried them. Here is one of them :
LIFE RETURNS (1935)An eccentric scientist claims to have found the cure for death in this intriguing drama. Battling his own personal demons, such as his withdrawal from the medical world, and the death of his wife, he attempts to solve the world's problems with his miraculous experiments. Interspersed with real documentary footage from the infamous Dr. Robert E. Cornish (who claimed he could revive the dead), this fascinating feature is both poignant and passionate.
I then did a search for this Dr. Robert E. Cornish , this is what I found,
2 articles from TIME magazine written back in 1934:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,747260,00.html?promoid=googlep
Lazarus, Dead & AliveMonday, Mar. 26, 1934 Article ToolsPrintEmailReprints
Motionless on a white-covered table, small and insignificant in the harsh brilliance of overhead lamps, a fox terrier listed in the laboratory records as Lazarus II lay last week in a gloomy old building on the University of California's campus. White-clad figures moved in & out of the glare, watching the creature they had asphyxiated with ether and nitrogen. Lazarus II's heart stopped beating and he no longer breathed. His shoe-button eyes were glazed. Lazarus II was dead.
When six minutes had elapsed since the last heartbeat, sallow young Dr. Robert E. Cornish moved Lazarus II to a seesaw-like device called a teeterboard. There he opened one of the terrier's thigh veins to admit a saline solution saturated with oxygen and containing the heart stimulant adrenalin, the liver extract heparin and some canine blood from which the fibrin (coagulating substance) had been removed. While he breathed gustily into the dog's mouth, his assistant rubbed the kinky-haired little body, rocked it on the teeterboard. The stimulant solution sank in a glass gauge as it seeped into the corpse through five feet of rubber tubing. In a little while the gauge level stopped falling, began to rise in slow pulsations. Lazarus II gasped. His leg twitched. His heart began to beat, feebly at first, then like a triphammer, then normally. Lazarus II was alive.
For eight hours and 13 minutes the dog lay in an uneasy coma, whining, panting, barking, as if ridden by nightmares. Eager to speed recovery, Dr. Cornish injected some glucose solution. A blood clot formed and Lazarus II died again, this time for good and all.
Dr. Cornish selected another terrier, killed it and revived it the same way. But though no glucose was used the second dog also died a final death, after five hours. Said Dr. Cornish: "If the second animal had been dead two minutes instead of eight, I think it very likely he would have recovered. We will try the experiment again in a few days."
Thirty years ago Cleveland's famed Dr. George Washington Crile was experimenting on dead dogs with saline solutions, adrenalin, chest massages. Frequently Dr. Crile induced a resumption of the heartbeat after a few minutes' cessation, but the heart stopped again quickly because of blood clotting.
Two years ago the problem of resuscitation began to absorb Dr. Cornish. Last year he tried but failed to revive a man dead five hours of heart disease with oxygen mask and teeterboard, no injections. He had no better luck with two men dead six hours.
Despite last week's temporary success with dogs, Dr. Cornish will try to revive no more human corpses until he can nurse '"dead" animals to complete recovery. Onetime staffmember of the University of California's Institute of Experimental Biology, he has been carrying on with the aid of CWA funds.
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,930486,00.html
Dog No. 3Monday, Apr. 30, 1934 Article ToolsPrintEmailReprints One Month ago Dr. Robert E. Cornish, jet-haired young University of California researcher, killed two fox terriers with ether and nitrogen, brought them back to life (TIME, March 26). One dog lived a comatose life of eight hours, the other five hours. Last fortnight Dr. Cornish killed a third terrier. For dog No. 3, in addition to the oxygen-saturated saline solution, liver extract, adrenalin, canine blood and rocking board with which he resurrected Nos. 1 & 2, Dr. Cornish had a new help—gum-arabic, to keep the heart from overworking. Revived, the third dog clung to life day after day. Though unconscious, it blinked and stretched when a window-blind was raised, swallowed when food was forced between its lips, kicked when the reflex centre in its leg was tapped. Early this week it had been alive ten days. Working and watching grimly. Dr. Cornish hoped against hope that he would see dog No. 3 once more frisking about his sombre little laboratory.