Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dame Rumor has noised it about of late that kind-hearted alumni are about' to send President Conant two cocker spaniels. Not that the new President is a dog fancier--nor that the desires to perpetuate the tradition of President Lowell's "Phantom," of sacred memory. But these alumni profess an interest in President Conant's physical well-being. They knew that when he worked in the laboratory he didn't bother much about exercise, but they feel that as President he should indulge in a daily constitutional. The spaniels would make him go walking, and incidentally survey the beauties...
...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...
...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...
...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...
Lieutenant-Colonel Apted left for New Haven Saturday afternoon in charge of Handsome Dan II, and later that evening presented the dog to Yale authorities. Last night a bulletin from New Haven said that Apted had stated that at the request of Malcolm Farmer, Director of Yale athletics, Harvard officials had put the search in his hands...