Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-15
NAN O|ES,BUT HIS
TISSUES LIVE,
SAYS CARREL
Scientist Winner of Nobel Prize
Makes Amazing Declaration
Concerning Dissolution.

>-rvr YORK, Nov. 14.-"There are
49,, kinds Of death-general death or
.h If the whole organization, and
- .s1 death or death Of the tissues
and organs
-...a,,en+. so amazing to the layman'
49, Dr Alexis Carrel, Of the
-,s.i,efsIIsr institute here.
- Dr. Carrel was awarded recently
49,. ,,aaIs Nobel prize OF $4,000 for
H. ~ r,o.+ notable discoveries in medl-
zine and surgery.
~ a word, DR.. Csrrel. who has sue
..,,rlr, 4ransplanted blood vessels
go. and even kidneys from one TO
- .r,rnals. asserts that at the mo-
r.o,, 8 man dies every healthy organ
.. r,n, you'd continue to live II the
".,,er ejaculation Of blood were re-
.to6 "a Il by transportation to
living body
.T, ia impossible TO give a definition
-, o,arara, DEATH" he goes on to say.
,s,,,oryhodv understands what IT means.
,-.,,..+r,aless. we are as ignorant about
:. AZ about life General death can oc-
.,n suddenly. while elemental death Is
q slow process. j..
"a man. for instance. is stabbed
.rrouyh the heart and killed. His per-
r,DaIitv mas disappeared. He is dead
..tIouaver. all the organs and tissues
,.,fcn comDose the body are still living.
Man Dies, Tissues Live.
..rba life OF every tissue and organ of
-., n,6, could go on if proper circu-
,.tf,p we're given back TO them. If
g, r-sre possible to transplant imme-
-ro+gI, after death the tissues and or
cans which compose the body into 9TH
e- bun,an organisms no elemental death
could occur, aud all the constituent
oor,a of the body would continue to
rva Tine man. however, would be
g.a6 for mis- personality would have
disappeared.
IN this case general death can be de-
fined a. the rupture of the contract Of
association between the tissues and or
rams by failure of one of the partners
me heart Therefore, general death il
,=lv different from elemental death. It
= merely the starting point of the dis
fntagrative phenomena which lead to
elemental death.
Immediately after general death
elemental death begins. 1t is a COM
plex 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 peculiarities q living being
offers rom its corpse.
There is no re-agent Of life
Life and Death Mysteries.
Living matter, in a condition OF
ron-manifested hfe, is apparently sim
liar to non -living matter. We per-
ceiye life only through its manifesto
tons
What fs the difference between q
dead seed and seed which will pro-
duce B. large tree? We do not know.
We know merely that, Immediately
after general death, the tissues are still
alive, because they manifest life IL they
are given back to their normal circu-
ation. 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 physiolos-
ieal condition.
Between the death OF the organism
and the elmental death there is pc
rod where the tissues are pros ressively
invaded by cadaveric distinte grafton.
At the beginning, the cadaveric changes
are slight, and the tissues can recover
placed back into normal condition
Later, reversible changes take place
ana the elemental death-that is, de-
s'ructton Of the living matter-occurs.
Immediately after the stopping of
me circulation all the elemnts Of the
VASCULAR wall are alive. If the trans
Plantation is performed at this mo-
nent, the artery lives in the body Of
us most and keeps its normal constitu-
ton"