AFTER THREE DAYS
Rabbit’s Heart Beats Again
London, January 7
The “News-Chroncle” says that a rabbit’s heart that lived again after being packed in ice for three days was demonstrated by Dr. Winifred Cullis, who explained that a rabbit's heart showed similar reactions to the human heart, retains energy after death, and can be stimulated by oxygen to beat for eight or nine hours.
Dr. Cullis slowly thawed the heart and fed to it artificial blood, containing the salts in the human blood, causing it to beat, the movements being recorded on a moving smoked paper. Subsequently the heart was fed with adrenalin, digitalis and calcium, causing it to beat wildly until the record almost left the paper. Then with potassium it almost stopped beating until revived.
The demonstration was undertaken for an instructional film (o educate children in hygiene.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 89, 9 January 1935, Page 9
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140AFTER THREE DAYS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 89, 9 January 1935, Page 9
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