The evening world., 1908-11-07
DR.. Carvel at Rockefeller In
stitute Made Strange Expert
ment in New Surgery.
WOUND QUICKLY HEALS
But Substituted Leg Grer
Shorter and Dog Patient
Lived on Three Weeks.

y wonderful story OF a grading uf Il
leg on a fox terrier 10y new ~, gerry has
come out OF the first da,'s cunventiu,
Of the American Philosophical Socie.,
in Philadelphia. Dr ALEXIS Ia-r.l, ::
pioneer in transp' dnting arteries dc
Nelopment OF tire viviseCtion experiment.
~ the Rockefeller Institute OF Medici'
Research in East SiNty-siXth street. ~
city--made a report or how ne replace
the leg OF the dog with one he had re
moved from a late lsmented friend Of
the fox terrier.
Not all OF the story was told Here's
what really happened TO the fox terrier.
learned by an Evening World reporter
who called at Rockefeller Institute TO.
day.
So successful was Or. carrel and his
associates in transplanting arteries and
veins and preserving the integrity OF
arteries removed from animals that 1t
was decided to try grating an entir.
limb. The splendid young fox terrier
was chosen az the subject Of the scieu-
tihc experiment.
gives HIM New leg.
His left hind leg was anputa ed pa n.
lessly and II rear leg OF anouker fox
terrier which had died few hours be
foN vac substituted by grating The
dog was watched carefully.
After TWO weeks the leg healed oom-
pletely. Gradually circulation developed.
but the dog could not move the graft ed
leg, which protrIdet from the side
much as does tle leg OF a scarecrow,
Measurements were taken and It was
found that the new leg was two inches
shorter than the others. Originally the
fox terriers deceased friend had longer
legs than his.
The shTinkage disconnected the expert
mentors but the limb was really pulsat.
ing with life and little else could be
wished as long a. the dog lived. But
he died in twenty-one days and with
him expired his dead friends leg again
Death was due 10 pneumonia. tho sur
seons say.
Calls Il q Step Forward.
"Unquestionably the experiment wa,
a marked step in using the limbs OF the
dead TO patch up the living said a
surgeon at the Rockefeller Institute to.
day. The dogs death 30 quickly did
not allow nature time to supply the
function OF moving the limb. This would
have taken probably three months The
complete healing OF the limb and the
circulation OF blood made the experiment
wonderful The dogs death and the leg
growing shorter instead OF longer have
not discouraged experimenters. Perhap.
another year will see such experiments
successfully executed in tho case OF man
Who knows?"
DR.. W. w. Keen, who presided at the
meeting in Philadelphia, said such
operations as the replacement of 4
diseased kidney with = normal one
would be less intricate than the same
operation in q cat or dog. on account
OF the size OF the organs
The chief obstacle to the practical APP
plcation OF this new surgery. said Dr.
Keen, would be to find a healthy organ
when wanted.
Perhaps" said DR.. Keen, when a
healthy man is killed or where . man
dies from some disease which does not
atfect the kidneys It will be possible to
extract the kidneys Immediately after
death and keep them in cold storage UNI
III 1t is possible to operate upon some
one suffering from an incurabls kidney
trouble.
What has been done IN the case o
the kidney It is reasonable to believe will
be found feasible in the case Of The
other organs OF the body"
Used Dead to Heal Living.
Already the knee joint from the leg a.
dead mar has been used to replace
the injured joint OF a living person.
A woman TOO weak to undergo
major operation has had ter arteries
Joined TO those OF her husband, anC
With the added strength of her hus
bands circulation and heart action hal
successfully undergone the shock OF tn,
surgeons knife and survived an opera
ton under w...Ch she would have other
wise died
A little baby was born with blood W
thin and devitalized that the blood YES
sells would not contain II. DR. Carrie
ioned the arteries OF the father &c
those of the child, and in an instant the
and within few hours the dying infant
fell asleep and awoke healthy. norma,
child.
Or Carrel explained that TO accom-.
plish the transportation OF organs the
surgeon must keep the tissues OF the
organ alive, after Il is cut from the
body, until he Is ready 10 regraft 1t on
a new organism, and Immediately upon
trsnsplanting must re-estabnsh the cir
culation by Joining the blood vessels In
some manner. lie said he found that
an artery could he kent alive FOR sixty
days and substituted for the artery Of q
living animal. An artery kept more
than sixty days was absolutely desd
and when transplanted resulted in the
death OF the animal" Or, csrrsl con,
~ have replaced the abdominal nrter,
les of a cat with the carotid arteries OF
a dog, once, when / received n human
leg from q New York Hospital, | kepi
the arteries tweniy-four days In re,
frigerator and then put them into a
dog"
FRANK sEMPLE DEAD.
pITTSBIf re Nov Frank Semnla