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...Friday. But Caterer Goff soon discovered that no such simple fare would do for Main Line dogs. He now prints a menu from which the client may order according to his dog's tastes or his veterinarian's advice. Entrees include beef hearts (16? per lb.), beef liver (20? ), beef kidneys (19? ), beef head meat (12? ), lamb (16? ), lamb hearts (16? ), tripe (11? ) and tongue (21? ). Beverages are cod liver oil, haliveroil, lime water, goats' milk, beef broth...
...after being quite dead-heart stopped, breath stopped, eyes glazed-for four minutes on Friday, April 13, Dog No. 3 had been brought back to live day after day. This apparent miracle had been worked by means of a rocking board and injections of oxygen-saturated saline solution, liver extract, canine blood, adrenalin, gum-arabic...
...14th day the dog snapped a fly, ate its usual half-pound of liver, milk, eggs, oatmeal gruel. On the 15th Dr. Cornish said it was semiconscious, "like a thoroughly intoxicated man." That night someone left the laboratory door open and on the 16th and 17th days the dog snuffled with a head cold...
...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...
...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...