Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-10
|OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW .
Written3 for the Times- Republtcan.

been made by Professors Loeb and Lin
gle two of the Chicago University pro-
fessors.
Salt, just plain. every day salt, OF
Sodium chloride, as the chemists call ii,
is about to take q new place in the
world, for these professors working I'M
the quiet of their laboratories have
found that it is the long -sought-foi
elixir of life. They nave found that so
dunn chloride, or salt solution, When
graduated to the right proportions, vi
cause a heart which has once ceased to
beat to take up its rhythmic action and
dcsits work again. In other words, they
have found that a certain salt solutipn
Will revive life that is extinct.
Elmer T.. Bailey, of Maiden. Mass
tells of an interesting experiment hf
los of the recent discussion of the action
of common salt upon the heart and the
possibility of restoring heart action
time. He says:
have submerged a large horsefy
in water and left for forty-two hours.
Upon removing it and covering it with
common table salt 1t gradually revived,
end with some slight assis tance in re-
moving the salt, which had become
caked on its body. was able to fly about
as we'll a $ ever. and apparently had SUI
fered no ill effects.
Il have submerged two flies the same
leEgth of time, and after removing them
from the water put salt on one Of them
and none on the other. The one salted
would revive and the other remain dead.
If the same principle carried out
would affect the human heart, why
could it not be applied to persons when
apparently dead from drowning?
Now With a pinch Of salt, continued
the writer. you can see Z can sec
lthis, said Mrs. Birdseye, If your salt
Theory is all right there is no need of
any one dying, or rather. remaining
lstead for any length of time Let me
Iexplain. was the writer's reply. IN the
lscientific language of another. that the
| * syword 10 the Whole discovery is what
these scientists have termed ions Pro-
| fsssors Loeb and Lingle have been ex-
all summer on aurcular
| and ventricular muscle, and have found
that certain ions or electric currents in
1.-The salt solution furnish the life
prolonging principle which works on the
Heart muscles thru the blood. The salt
IN the blood in certain proportions they
have discovered to be the cause of The
\ heart beat: or as a reporter of a Chit
stago daily puts it: Providing these pro-
4 fessors work out their theories in the
future, so that they can be applied in q
lpractical way, as they say they expeca
10 do. life Will. take on an entirely new
aspect. Death will lose its sting and 1
heart that has ceased TO beat from any
4 other cause than violence may have &
certain solution OF salt injected Into ths
| various arteries and veins and again ds
its life giving work.
" The proverbial nine-li lived cat viii
| increase its lives to 999, and the person
Iaflicted with heart disease ma " have no
i fears for himself ii he will have hi.
/ blood examined and find the prescription
Ito fit his heart. for he may carry a it'll
vial of salt solution and a hypoder1ni
Syringe with which 70 s.iiliii ate his &. ss
tsring heart. ine philosopher of TIL,
4 clden times would be surprised to Iearl
that perpetual youth was not to b,
sIfcund in a magical. sparkling folintai.
4 Ct water. but in dash of common brine
The dream of Ponce de Leon in the four
Iteenth century about the magical foun,
jstain of water in Florida has been real
lsized at the dawn of the twentieth cen.
tnry. in a little fifteen by twenty re.
i search room in one of the aboratorie!
4 at the University Of Chicago. by pro
fessors who have been making voyage.
Eae discovery. NOT in ships. but in glas:
test tubes and Walls of salt water
Z y
Seraphina. who had been listening
suggested that we go to the seashors
every summer so that we should bt
rear the brine. And then she proposed
4 the conundrum. Why is it so many sail
crs are drowned in salt water when file.
can be brought to life with it?' sYol
gre not of a scientific turn of mind, wa.
Ter ather,s answer. Quoting again. le
4 me tell you what an ion is. An ion TIM
something scientific that causes Til,
Heart TO pulsate, can scarcely be defined
II any except a technical way 1t is I
4 sort of electrical current which is set III
between two elements in salt-sodiun
4 and chlorine. In solution salt is in tyr
4 parts namely. sodium and chlorine. So.
4 dunn carries positive charge of cleo
Itricity and chlorine carries negative
4 charge. Consequently when a battery
is placed in the solution the sodium
/ positive molecules move toward ths
4 negative pole in the chlorine molecules
This current whichEis set up is the ion
IN the blood which causes the rhythmic,
al heart beat.
Professor Lingle IN his pamphlet
concerning the discovery. says:
tGaule, Ringer. Howell and Others
maintain that the origin of the heart.
Rhythmic beat must be sought anons
i the inorganic constituents of the blood
The latest theory TO explain this actio,
has been advanced by Howell wht
Holds that to produce rhythmic con trac.
tons in heart tissue this interaction o
three salts is necessary-sodium chic.
tide to maintain osmotic pressure, cal,
cum salts to produce tone and act al
the real excitant, and potassium salts t.
4 cause relaxation and neutralize the ex.
scessive action of the calcium salts.
&c also says that
II. The results of DIR. Loeb's expert
lsrlents on rhythmic contractions ii
4 stripped muscle and Gonionemus tissue
apply very closely to the ventricular tbs
sue of the turtle.
Sodium. and not calcium. is tn,
stimulus for rhythmic contractions O
the heart.
'3. \ pure sodium chloride solution
Inns an injurious effect OH heart tissue