Word: wiliard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles last week one Dr. Ralph Wiliard froze a guinea pig solid, then revived it. The guinea pig immediately nibbled a piece of spinach, apparently none the worse for refrigeration. Dr. Wiliard, 32, a swarthy, Russian-born chemist, next proposed to freeze & revive a dog, then a monkey, then an ape, then perhaps a human. His ultimate purpose: "To use freezing to kill bacteria of certain diseases while retaining suspended life in the tissues...
Before freezing the guinea pig last week, Dr. Wiliard injected sodium citrate into its veins to prevent its blood from clotting after the heart ceased beating. Next he put the creature, a soft, brown handful, into an asphyxiating chamber which he pumped full of ether and oxygen. When the guinea pig was unconscious Dr. Willard replaced the etheroxygen with carbon dioxide, and with that atmosphere slowly cooled the guinea pig until it was ice-hard. In that dead state the hard, brown handful remained several hours...
...revive the guinea pig, Dr. Wiliard gradually warmed it until its body temperature was normal (105° F). An injection of adrenaline and ephedrine started the creature's heart pumping, a transfusion of fresh guinea pig blood gave it vigor until it could regenerate its own blood...