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In 1934, a doctor brought a dog back to life. He tried it on humans.

Robert Cornish's first revived dog, a fox terrier, lived another eight hours and thirteen minutes; his teeterboard idea was never adopted by doctors.

Photo: Fox Terrier
Photo: State Farm · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA doctor in the nineteen thirties revived a fox terrier six minutes after its last heartbeat, Popular Science reports.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSix minutes. That's less time than my kettle takes, and nobody's calling the kettle a miracle.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe dog was called Lazarus the Second. Which means somebody lost a Lazarus the First, and nobody's discussing that.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorRight. So by BBN's authority, I hereby open the ceremony. Lazarus the Second is our Pet of the Day.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHis title is Most Decorated Veteran of a See-Saw.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorStat line: one heart stopped, one heart restarted, eight hours and thirteen minutes of play. Retired undefeated, technically.

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe article says he spent them in a restless zombie state. Which is honestly how I spend Sundays.

  8. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA teeterboard, to get the blood going. Doctors never adopted it. Even the playground passed.

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTo Lazarus the Second: you came back when nobody asked, you stayed eight hours, and you never once complained about the see-saw.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWe should all be so good. Dale, I need a minute.

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