Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1912-06-08
HEART LIVES
AFTER DEATH
Vital Organs Transferred TO
Victims Needing Them
A new MEDICAL EPOCH
Rockefeller Institute Investigator Tells
Doctors at Atlantic City Convention
Of Experiments.

Of Experiments.
The third days session OF the
American Medical association In At
lantic City, n. j., was not bit less
important than either of It's predeces.
sors. and really the advances which
first were disclosed to the profession
here marked another epoch in medi.
cine and surgery.
The amazing report OF DR.. Alexis
Carel. who Is In charge OF the research
work at the Rockefeller institute. of
New York. surpasses anything that
has ever been done in the line of sur.
gerry, and the possibilities OF his dis.
covery are such that one might almost
be led TO believe that science had
solved the problem OF restoring life TO
the dead.
Dr. carrel told the surgical section
assembled on the steel pier that any
time they had occasion to use parts
OF human heart, nerves. blood YES.
sells. spleen. skin. and even some Of
the smaller glands OF the body. all
they had to do was 10 order them
from the institute and they would be
accommodated forthwith. The cornea
Of the eye. diseased portions OF tho
various bones OF the body. cartileges
| OF the knee. which have given out and
need replenishing, can be had from
this wonderful research laboratory.
There was something almost un-
canny as this scientific man told the
surgeons and physicians that with the
millions that John ID. Rockefeller has
endowed this institution. II has al last
become possible TO make these por-
lions OF the human anatomy live after
they have been taken from the body.
DIR. Carrel has worked along the lines
laid down by Tufiet. Magitot and
I.awenhaek. famous scientists OF Eu.
rope, and he has discovered that he
can make these tissues and parts of
the body live and grow Tor as long as
nine months after the life OF the hui
man body from which they have been
taken has ceased to exist.
For six years these experiments
have been going on. and now that they
have been completed and verified the
scientific world of medicine receives
the opportunity TO avail itself of the
discovery
DR.. Carrel discovered that perma-
nent 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 continue to live. At first he began
to experiment with animals A piece
OF the heart OF the chicken pulsated
strongly and wa salive for l0i days
after 1t was taken from the animal.
and microscopic examination revealed
| the fact that connective tissue was
growing from II five months after re-
moval.
From the chicken he turned TO the
guinea pig. and from that 70 the dog.
then the horse: later the unborn babe
was used. TO be followed by the in
FAINT. 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 has
nine methods of preserving life OF
structures which have been taken from
| the body. II Is necessary 10 have as
many OF these ms possible. DR. Carrel
explained. for some tissues will grow
better in one medium than they will in
another.
The fixeG principle which this dis
covery has established is new one
in science and practically revolution
ICES the old theories OF animal life
Dr. Carrel has proved that II is pos.
sible to transplant after death the It's
sues 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 al
ter they have been made part OF
new body they become constituent
par OF II and life continues as II Ii
had been there from birth.
The media which are used 10 pre-
serve these tissues are isoionic sodium
chloride. chloride solution. l.ockes So
luton, Ringers solution. defibrinated
blood. serum confined humid air and
vaselin The color and consistency OF
these tissues remains perfectly nor.
NAL six. seven and in some cases ten