Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again in the news as the favorite stamping ground of obscure young scientists who bemuse the nation by bringing "dead" animals back to life. Of all places in the world, Hollywood seemed the ideal spot for the spectacular experiments conducted for the past fortnight by young Dr. Ralph Stanley Willard...
...weeks ago, Dr. Willard said, he took an ill-tempered, 20-lb. rhesus monkey named Jekal, asphyxiated it with ether, injected sodium citrate into its veins to prevent its blood from coagulating. When the animal's breathing and circulation had stopped, a chiropractor pronounced it "dead." Then Dr. Willard popped Jekal into an icebox where the temperature was kept at - 30° C. ( - 22° F.). Five days later he removed the small, rigid, grey clump of fur & flesh from the refrigerator, invited newshawks to watch the proceedings, began to thaw it slowly in a chamber equipped with heating...
...Willard injected an ounce of anterior pituitary fluid...
...Alive!" exulted Dr. Willard. He filled his hypodermic with posterior pituitary fluid, administered that...
Devereux, posed for the young drummer boy (TIME, May 9, 1932). The model for the elderly drummer was the artist's father, Rev. Samuel Willard. The bandaged fifer was Hugh Mosher, Civil Warrior, who actually fifed all the time he was posing...