The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-06-26
And Then Are Joined to
the Living.
MARVELLOUS DEMONSTRATIONS
Of Modern Science, in Which
Are Shown Wonders of
Surgical Research.
DIR. CARREL TELLS OF MARyELS


in charge of the research work at
the Rockefeller Institute at that
city, told the surgical section, as
sembled on the Steele Pier, that
any time they had occasion to use
parts Of human heart, nerves,
blood vessels. spleen o. some of the
smaller glands of the body, all they
had to do was to order from the in
stitute and they would be accomo-
| dated forthwith. The cornea of the
! eye, diseased parts of the various
bones of the body, cartilages which
have given out and need replenish-
ing, can be had from his laborato-
ry.
The doctor told the surgeons and
physicians that it has become pos
/ sible to make these parts alive af-
| ter they have been removed from
| these parts live and grow nine
months after the life of the human
body from which they have been
| removed has ceased. For six years
! these experiments have been going
on and now that they have been
completed and verified, the world
of medicine has the opportunity to
avail itself of the discovery.
DR.. Carrel began to experiment
with the lower orders of animals. A
piece of the heart of a chicken pull
stated and was alive for as long as
104 days after it had been removed
from the fowl. and microscopic ex-
animation revealed the fact that
connective tissue was growing from
! it five months after removal.
/ From the chicken he turned to
the guinea pig and from that to the
/ dog; then to the horse, later to the
babe and finally to man. In each
case there was no failure. and step
by step he improved upon the me-
dia in which he placed these tissues
until he has nine methods of pre-
serving life of structures which have
been removed from the body. 1t is
necessary to have as many of these
as possible, DIR. Carrel explained,
for some tissues will grow better in
one medium than they will in an
other.
According to DR.. Carrel, the dis
covery practically revolutionizes
the theories of animal life. DR..
Carrel says that he has proved
that it is possible to transplant af-
ter death the tissues and organs
which compose the body that has
ceased to live, into other identical
organisms. In this transfer no
death of the tissues occurs and af-
ter they have been made a part of
another body, the life in them con-
tinues as though it had been there
from birth.
Among the media which are used
to preserve these tissues are iso-
tonic sodium chloride, diI6ride So
Locks solution, Ringers solution,
defbrinated blood serum, confined
humid air and vaseline. The color
and consistency OF these tissues re-
main perfectly normal six, seven
and in some cases ten months after
removal. DR.. Carre1 said he made
microscopic examinations in every
stage of his experiments and prov
ed conclusively that life was pres
ent at every instance. He then
placed them in cold storage and
there they continued to live and
grow and were then used to re-
place diseased tissues in the human
body to ascertain if they would |
grow after they had been trans
planted. Clinical reports showed
conclusively that they did, so that
with the experiments completed and
verified, it was possible to inform
the profession that the institute
was prepared to supply them on
short notice.
Several of the countrv's famous |
surgeons have been using these
cold storage tissues for the past
twelve months. DR.. John b. Muir |
ply had occasion only recently to |
rush an order from Chicago to New
YORK for a cartilage which he |
wanted 10 use in a case OF knee dis
ease that he was about 10 operate
upon. The cartilage was shipped bv
express in a tiny refrigerator, ar
rived safely and was used. The
patient recovered the use, of his leg
and is walking about as though he
had never been troubled with it.
This advance is surgery simplifies
the methods of transplantations of
skin and bone. Surgeons used to
graft skin from one living creature