The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-17
LEG GRATED ON
MANNED DOG
Within Three Weeks Wound
Showed Only a Scar. Readily
Assumed Normal Control.
POSSIBLE WITH HUMAN BEINGS.
Knee Joint Of Dead Man Replaces
Diseased One of Pationt.-Somc OF
the Wonders OF Experimental Sur
gerry Revealed.

Philadelphia.-The wonders of ex-
pcrimental surgery accomplished at
the Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research, New York City. were out
lined before the American Philosoph-
ical Society I'm much greater detail
than they have ever before been CIV
en- to the public
Among the latest achievements Of
science described by DR. Alexis Car
rel, who has accomplished many OF
the most difI1cult experiments at the
Rockefeller Institute. was the trans
planting OF one dogs leg onto an
other dogs body.
The fox terrier patient readily as
sumed normal control of tha new leg,
which was taken from n dead dog,
and within three weeks. the wound
showed only scar and the dog was
up and around.
The transplanting OF cats kidneys
into other cats. even after the organs
have been in cold storage sixty days.
has proved entirely successful. HUI
man arteries and Jugular veins have
been interchanged, and the patients
haven't been able to tell the differ
ence.
Application of the experiments
performed on dogs and cats to the
rejuvenation Of ailing humanity is,
In the announced opinion of DR.. Car
rel, entirely possible.
DR.. w. w. Keen. who presided.
said such operations as the replace
ment OF q diseased kidney with a
normal one would be less intricate
than the same operation in a cat or
dog on account of the size OF the
organs.
The chief obstacle TO the practical
application Of this new surgery, sasd
DR.. Keen, would be to find healthy
organ when wanted.
Perhaps" said Dr. Keen. when
healthy man is killed or where man
dies from some disease which does
not AFFECT the kidneys 1t will be pos
sible to extract the kidneys immedi-
ately after edath and keep them in
cold storage until 1t is possible to
operate upon some one suffering
from an incurable kidney trouble.
What has been done in the case
of the kidney II is reasonable to be-
lieve will be found feasible in the
case OF the other organs OF the body"
Already the knee joint from the
10 - hAAn nGnl
replace the injured joint of a living
person.
A woman too weak to undergo a
major operation has had her arter-
les Joined to those of her husband,
and with the added strength of her
husbands circulation and heart ac-
tion has successfully undergone the
shock of the surgeons knife and sur
vived an operation under which she
would have otherwise died
A little baby was born with blood
so thin and deyitalized that the blood
vessels would not contain It. DR..
Carrel joined the arteries of the ia
ther to those of the child, and in an
instant the form of the infant be-
came revitalized, and within a few
hours the dying infant fell asleep
and awoke a healthy, normal child.
Dr. Carrel explained that to ac-
complsh the transplantation of or
gans the surgeon must keep the tis-
sues OF the organ alive, after 1t Is
cut from the body. until he Is ready
to regraft It on a new organism, and
Immediately upon transplanting must
re-establish the circulation by Joining
the blood vessels In some manner.
He said he found that an artery
could be kept alive for sixty days
and substituted for the artery OF a
living animal. An artery kept more
than sixty days was absolutely dead
and when transplanted resulted in
the death of the animal" DR.. Carrel
continued:
Il have replaced the abdominal ar
terics Of a cat with the carotid ar
teries of a dog. Once, when | receiv-
ed a human leg from New York
Hospital, | kept the arteries twenty
four days in refrigerator and then
pat them into dog"