Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-07-25
TISSUE FROM DEAD
FOR USE OF LIVING
Medical Science Appears to
lave Triumphed in Part Over
Power Of Dissolution.

Atlantic City.-Medical science has
at last triumphed over that process
which causes death. Startling as this
phrase may seem, it is nevertheless
true. for in New York city for the past
six years the greatest scientists Of the
world have proved by experiments at
the Rockefeller institute that issues
OF the human body removed immedi
ately after death il placed within the
proper media. will live and grow and
may be preserved, If they are kept in
cold storage.
These tissues will not only live as
far as scientific require, but
they may be put to practical use to re-
place similar tissues in the body of am
other human being.
Surgeons n physicians marvelled
at the story of the discovery as i, was
unfolded to them at the session Of the
narrator was DR.. Alexis Carrel, of New
York. who is i'm charge of h work of
research at the Rockefeller institute.
mas Specimens Of All Kinds.
DR.. Carrel old the surgical section
assembled on the steel pier that any
time they had occasion to use parts of
a human heart, nerves, blood vessels.
spleen, skin and ever some of the
smaller glands of the body, all they had
wv VIZ Ncs W lA tIiSlJ1 IIOIII NllS lll-
stitute and they would be accommo-
dated forthwith.
The cornea OF the eye. diseased por-
lions OF the various bones of the body,
cartridges of the knee which have
given out and need replcnishing, can
be a from the wonderful research
laboratory.
There was something limos UNI
canny as this scientific man old the
surgeons and physicians that it has ut
last become possible to make these
portions of the human anatomy live
after they have been removed from the
body. DIR. Carrel has worked along
h lines laid down by Tufflet, Magi-
tot and Lawenhack, famous scientists
OF Europe, and he has discovered that
ne can make these tissues and parts of
n body live n grow for as long as
nine months after the life of the hu-
man body from which they were re-
Q had ceased to exist.
DR.. Carrel discovered that permanent
active life of the tissues OF the body
outside of that organism was not only
possible. but that these tissues could be
preserved after isolation and still con-
tinue to live.
The Principle Is New.
At first he began to experiment with
animals. A piece of the heart of the
chicken, pulsated strongly and was
'Cto oS 4V1 OoyS dllcE IL
was removed from the bird, and micro
scopic examination revealed the fact that
connective tissues were growing from
1T five months after removal. From
h chicken he turned to the guinea
pig, and from that to the dog, then he
horse and later the .unborn babe was
used. to be followed by the infant and
finally man.
In each case there was no failure.
and step by step he improved upon the
media. in which he placed these tissues
until he had nine methods of preserve
ing the 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 another.
The fixed principle which this dis
covery has established is a new one in
science and practically revolutionizes
the old theories OF animal life. Or.
Carrel a proved that it is possible
to transplant after 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
after they have been made a part Of a
new body they become a constituent
part OF 1t and life continues as hough
1t had been there from birth.