Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-14
NAN D|ES;BUT HIS
TISSUES LIVE,
SAYS CARREL
Scientist Winner of Nobel Prize
Makes Amazing Declaration
Concerning Dissolution.

WV YORK, Nov 14.-"There are
,-i,ds Of death-generai death OF
.,,,b Of the whole organization, and
- .'--,,+.1 death or death of the tissues
and organs. , a,,o,.,eo
..,,,art co amazing to the layman,
a5o nv Dr. Alexis Carrel, Of the
oac,-efeller institute here
r., mr. Carrel was awarded recently
49, .-.or.s Nobel prize of $4,000 for
.''' ,,,os+ notable discoveries in medi-
zine and surgery.
'' T.. word. DR.. Carrel, who has sue
,.-,,,rv transplanted blood vessels,
homes and even kidneys from one to
s4,ar animals asserts that at the mo-
w. man dies every healthy organ
],f,,, r-ould continue to live if the
-, circulation Of blood were re-
80 ~ If by transportation to a
living body.
81. IL, irnnossibIe to give definition
-. General DEATH" he goes on TO say.
r,,e~ybody understands what 1t means
\a,.sr-neless, we are as ignorant about
49, abaut life. General death can oc-
..,r suddenly. while elemental death is
slow process
o\ man. for instance. ls STABBED
.,ro,lob the heart and killed. His per-
.,,arir,- has disappeared. He is dead.
However. all the organs and tissues
which. compose the body are still living.
Man Dies. Tissues Live.
.Taa life OF every tissue and organ of
..a 5odv could go on if a proper circu-
,.tion were given back to them. If
F., were possible to transplant imme-
5fqfeIv after death the tissues and or
cans which compose the body into 9TH
Or human organisms no elemental death
would occur. and all the constituent
,qr+s Of the body would continue to
live The man. however. would be
dead for his personality would have
disappeared.
IN this case general death can be de-
fined as the rupture of the contract Of
association between the tissues and Or
cans by failure of one Of the partners
the heart. Therefore, general death il
very different from elemental death. It
is merely the starting point of the dis
integrative phenomena which lead to
elemental death.
Immediately after general death
elemental death begins. 1t is a COM
pick and slow process which progress
sively destroys the living matter We
can not know directly whether or not a
tissue is living and by what chemical
or physical peculiafties a living being
differs from its corpse.
There is no re-agent of life
Life and Death Mysteries.
Living matter, in a condition Of
manifested life is apparently SIM
liar to non-living matter. We per-
ceive life only through its manifesto
tons.
What is the difference between a
dead seed and seed which will pro-
duce large tree? We do not know.
we know merely that, Immediately
q after general death, the tissues are still
alive because they manifest life II they
are given back to their normal circu-
latlon. We also know that some time
after general death they die, because
they are not able to manifest life again,
even when placed in normal hysiolog-
ical condition.
Between the death of the organism
and the elmental death there is pc
NOD where the tissues are progressively
invaded by cadaveric distintegration.
AT the beginning, the cadaveric changes
are slight, and the tissues can recover
Il placed back into normal condition
Later reversible changes take place
ana the elemental death-that is, de-
suuctlon Of the living matter-occurs.
Immediately after the stopping of
Tue circulation all the elemnts Of the
vascular wall are alive. If the trans
plantation is performed at this mo-
neht the artery lives in the body Of
,!s most and keeps its normal constitu-