An Account of an Experiment made by M. Hook, of Preserving Animals alive by Blowing through their Lungs with Bellows.
I did heretofore give this Illustrious Society an account of an Experiment I formerly tryed of keeping a Dog alive after his Thorax was all displayed by cutting away the Ribbs and Diaphragme; and after the Pericardium of the Heart also was taken off....
...the Dog being kept alive by the Reciprocal blowing up of his Lungs with Bellowes, and they suffered to subside, for the space of an hour or more...
--From Philosophical transactions--
I bet there weren't a lot of stray dogs around Hook's house.
