The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-27
Advancement of Science
By FIRE ERIC l. HASKIN

enpyl treated human patients In
like manner with similar results.
While the physician does not claim
TO have discovered cancer cure. the
results have been so encouraging
that scientists everywhere are most
hopeful OF further developments along
this line.
News OF successful experiment. In
replacing weak or worn out parts or
the body with new parts which have
been kept in cold storage. comes from
the distinguished surgeon, DIR. Car
rel. Or. Carrel's experiments have
been made chiefly with the abdominal
aOrta--the large artery leading from
the left yentricle OF the heart The
possibilities which lie in the direc-
ton OF cold storage repair parts" to
the human anatomy present many
amusing aspects. but the idea is not
one 10 be scorned as ridiculous.
Science has done much within the
last few months TO arouse the peo-
pie OF the world TO the necessity for
getting rid OF the rat pest Califor-
MIA fight against the bubonic plague
bearing rodent has been eminentIy
successful. ana il has kindled inter-
world Perhaps this agitation is not
wholly unrelated 10 the appearance or
tie hrst vacuum street cleaner, an
invention which bids fair to supplanJ
the old street sweepers with their
clouds OF microbe- altering dust
These cleaners run by steam and II
is claimed that they do in one hour
what horse-drawn sweeper does IN
siA
The possibilities OF the moving
picture have been developed in a
most remarkable manner recently.
Their use in training students in
surgery is just being realized. 1t is
believed that every small medical col.
lege in the country can give its stu.
dents as thorough training in surgery
as the most heavily endowed insti-
tutions. The master surgeons OF the
world. performing their operations
before the cinematograph will be
able TO show the students of Japan,
Washington and Paris, all the In
tricacies OF his work in each clinic
Each college can supply itself with
the films necessary for complete
course in surgery and valuable know
ledge need no longer be confined to
the medical student who can AFFORD
to go 10 Berlin or Vienna TO complete
his professional education The NOV
ms picture is also figuring in the
education OF the dairyman, both as
10 sanitation and economy. and the
practical farmer now receives his
lessons in intensive agriculture by
the same method
In telephony and telegraphy there
has been material advancement re-
Gently. BY means OF a new micro
phone constructed by Carl Egner
and j. Hammer, Swedish inventors,
conversation has been made possible
by wireless for distance of IT'S
miles. In England, Joseph Chamber
| lain was able TO hear not only one OF
Mr. Ballour's speeches, delivered
seven miles away. but was able to
follow the enthusiasm of the crowd,
by means OF a perfected telephone
Some progress has been made in the
scheme TO send pictures by wire, that
peculiar property of the substance
selenium. which conducts electricity
in varying degrees according to the
amount OF light playing upon it's sur
tace, being employed.
While the idea has not aloped
TO any practical proportion it is
worthy OF note that there has been
some progress in farming by wire
less" that is the rapid propagation
OF plants through electrical dis
charges in the air This is the ont
growth OF the discovery made by
Demstrom, the Swedish professor
who was investigating the aurora
borealis some thirty years ago. and
who noticed that the flowers in his
greenhouse where he conducted his
experiments seemed to thrive on their
electrical baths
Tomorrow-Water Fowl Club.