The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-02
TO REYOLUTIONIZE SURGERY.
WAY FOUND TO TRiNSPOSE AND
DEFLECT BLOOD CURRENT.
Chicago Doctors Graft Veins to Arteries.
Transplant Arteries and Direct Circus
Iation at Will Hoped Thus 90 Cure
Brain Liver Kidney and Heart Diseases

Brain Liver h1uney anu tttaTt Disease
CHICAGO, June AS the result of ex-
periments, which have been conducted for
nearly a year by DR.. Alexis Carrel and Dr.
c.. C. Guthrie in the Hull Physiological La
boratory, at the University OF Chicago, dis
ooyeries have been made that may revolu-
tonic surgery.
While all the experiments have been per-
! formed on dogs the object was to ascertain
methods that could be used on human
beings to transform veins into arteries,
transplant organs and ever to substitute
| the arteries and veins Of animals for the
diseased arteries and veins of humans.
Drs. Carrel and Guthrie are watching
half q dozen dogs that are apparently thriV-
ing with their veins and arteries transposeo
in various ways. Among the facts dlscoVereo
by the surgeons are these:
The transplanting of veins on arteries pro-
duces, from a functional point OF view,
the transformation Of veins into arteries
Transplanted veins adapt themselves 20
the new functions imposed.
The new arteries transmit the blood IN
definitely. After ten months the circula-
ton through the new arteries is apparently
as active as on the day OF the operation.
The ascertained facts are Insignificant
compared with what the experimenters hope
to accomplish by applying their method to
human beings. In a scientific treatise they
have indulged In speculation to only a
moderate extent, but their hypothesis are
decidedly startling to the lay mind
They hope by the transplanting Of a vein
on another vein to produce a deviation of
the bloodfrom one part of the venous system
to another. The siRr ificance of such devia-
| ton is that healthy blood could be intro
duced into areas where the b lood has &C.
| come stagpant or unhealthy.
They hope to be able by this deviation to
c,re diseases Of the liver, kidneys and
even of the brain. Softening of the hrai n
Ia now incurable, but Drs. Carvel and Guth-
rie expect to see the time when by sending
red blood surging through that organ they
will be able to revivify the brain cells and
restore the patient to a normal mental con-
| d.tion.
~ the discoveries are carried to their
| logical conclusion various affections of the
heart now considered incurable will be
! quickly remedied. # your heart is not in
the right place it will be transplanted.
II your kidney or liver is not hitched up
| DrODtTlN YOUR tiu diiN' oi''i'NT wa ~
dissected and grated together so as to give
new. healthy life to the diseased organ.
More wonderful still, Drs. Carol and
Guthrie, IL is declared, have actually sue
ceeded in reversing h circulation of the
blood. The results which they expect to
obtain from the reversal OF blood currents
ha We long been sought by the medical world.
Reversal of the circulation in a man, II is
said, will cure gangrene, which has been
the chief obstacle confronting surgeons
in the healing OF internal Wounds.
Where liberation OF the lining OF the heart
has set In a reversal Of the circulation will
soon restore the tissues to a healthy con-
! dition by an increase Of blood. The same
result, II Is thought, can he obtained In the
case Of any diseased gland.
The experiments OF the two surgeons
have been confined to the transportation
Of 9eina taken from the operated animals
itself In time. however. they hope &c
transplant veins from another animal of
the eln1e species and even from an apipal
l!M n different speGes.