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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25
By DIR. Leonard X. Hirshberg, III. A.
Johns Hopkins University

blood vessels we call the capillaries?
Again by osmosis. They circulate in
the blood stream and strain out under
the csmotiC pressure into the sweat
glands-just as they strain out in
side the body and poison the vital
organs-if their quantity is too great
tc b. removed through the skin or
If the pores are not working prop
er.y
Now OF recent years hydropathy,
o, the treatment of certain diseases
bv trequen. and long continued
paths has developed greatly. 1t has
been proven that some forms of in
sanity due to persistent poisons in
the blood car be mitigated and
sometimes cured by soaking the
patient for hours in warm water.
The secretion through the skin is
stimulated by the water and the
poisons are carried away directly
from the blood through the sweat
glands The vapor bath and its like
for removing an excess of uric acid
is an ancient institution. 1t is true
that these methods do not remove
the causes of the poisoning, but by
relieving the blood stream of the
poisOns they give Nature a mighty
help toward cure.
DR.. Abels system is a highly
specialized form of hydropathy in
which, by the aid of fifty feet of mica
tubing, the circulatory system is ex-
tended outside the body and is
brought directly in contact with a
cleansing liquid. During its passage
through this liquid the blood stream
is washed by osmosis free of it's
poisons and goes back into the body
pure.
The apparatus itself consists, as
has been said, of fifty feet of mica
tubing. This is shaped by S turns
into thirty-two continuous tubes
which in their turn are immersed in
a glass cylinder. Mica is used be-
cause its texture is the nearest thing
to the texture of the walls of the
arteries and veins. Mica, like the
blood vessel walls, is slightly porous
and so susceptible to osmotic pres
sure. The apparatus is so small ana
delicate that the whole does not take
up more than a cubic foot of space.
A rubber tube is attached to each
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25
TTHE most remarkable achieve
l ment of modern surgery is
= the discovery of a methnd

TTHE most remarkable achieve
ment of modern surgery is
the discovery of method
whereby the blood can be drawn
from the body, washed clean and be
returned without the heart missing
a single beat.
This does not mean, of course,
that the blood is washed in tubs lik
a shirt. Cleansing of the life
stream, with its hosts of red and
white corpuscles, its serum and its
ferments, is a fac more complicated
matter. Nevertheless the new
method of purifying is quite as
extraordinary as though the circula
ton were sent out to be laundered.
The invention by which the wash
ing is done is that of Professor J. J.
Abel, one of the most brilliant ex-
detrimental surgeons in America, and
Drs. l.. G. Rountree and B. B. Davis,
all three of Johns Hopkins. The
cleansing outside the body is made
possible by the action Of what is
known as osmosis. Osmosis is the
tendency to mix of all liquids and
gases by passage through a mem
brane or porous wall separating them.
Let me make this process clear.
Suppose you take a vessel and half
fill it with distilled water. Then
suspend in it a bag made from men,
brane parchment, the coverings of
the intestines, bladder Fill this
membranous bag with sweetened
water and leave it immersed in the
pure water for an hour
Now if you carried this bag
around for an hour by itself you
would not lose drop from it. But
when at the end OF your hour of inn
mersion you test your enclosing
water you find it also sweet. The
liquid in the bag has strained out
through the minute interstices in the
combining membrane and the enclos-
ing liquid has strained in, and this
process will go on until the fluid
outside the bag is just as sweet as
that inside. We call this the osmotic
process.
Again, the pores of the skin throw
off waste matters and poison from
the blood. How do these products
get into the pores from the little
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

Using this machine the French
runner Berthet who is not supposed
to be in the same class as first class
bicycle riders, easily beat the records
Of the best riders. Ii is stated by
the French authorities that he easily
beat The worlu's record for one kilO-
meter or 3,2SG feet, by eight seconds.
The record for this distance is said
to be fifty-fye seconds If the new
machine can make such an enormous
reduction as eight seconds in fifty
five when used BY a comparatively
slow rider, il is expected that Il rider
like Walthour would be able to cut
the record nearly in half
Bcrthet made another remarkable
record with the torpedo bicycle Rid
ing very easily he covered . distance
Of i've kilOmeters. or about three and
three-quartcr miles in five minutes
and forty-sevpu seconds nj the Palace
of Sports in Paris, beating the worlds
record Dy one minute and four sec
OndS.
II is suggested that this machine
Will make very pleasant and eco
nomical substitute for the motorcycle.
1t enables a rider TO travel as fast As
anybody can wish to go and at the
same time protect himself from the
wind and dust
The construction OF the torpedo-like
windshield is based upon very care
fully studied scientific principles 4
superficial observer might think
that a shield pointed in front and
broader behind would cut through the
air faster but as matter Of fact
this would hinder the progress
Of the machine by creating air fric-
ton at the rear. The fling down Of
the aluminium envelope to point has
a most important effect in reducing
air resistance. The same principle has
been followed 10 some extent in con
structlng boats, and even passenger
cars.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25
The Newest Miracle of Medic
Forces Your Heart to Pump
the Life Stream Into Fifty
Feet of Cleansing Tubes
and Then Pump 1t Back
Into the Veins With All
Its Poisons Strained Out

of the two openings. The mica tubes
are filled with a normal salt solu-
tion-a heaping teaspoonful of salt
mixed in a quart of sterilized water
The enclosing glass cylinder is filed
with the same saline mixture. The
whole apparatus rests in box where
by certain appliances a constant
temperature is maintained for the
liquid.
So much for the appliance. Now
how is the blood to be carried through
it for washing? Here enters the
miracle of surgery. The neck of the
patient is opened and the carotid
artery and the jugular vein on onG
side is laid bare. The carotid car
ries the freshly oxygenated arterial
blood away from the heart and the
jugular vein carries the returning
current of depleted, waste-laden blood
black to the heart for fresh oxygena-
ton by the lungs. There is a carotid
artery and jugular vein on each
side of the neck.
The exposed artery and vein are
frozen at a certain point and cut. To
one Of the severed ends of the caro-
It'd is attached the rubber tubing that
leads into the intake of the mica
pipes The exhaust end of the mica
piping is attached to one end Of the
jugular in the same fashion. The
other parts of the severed vessels
are then tied.
We then have the circulatory sys-
TEN increased by fifty feet of
artificial artery. The heart pumps
the blood through just as though it
were part of the body.
And here enters the reason for the
saline solution that fills the mica
tubes. Manlfestly, If there We're
nothing within them when the heart
began TO force the blood through
there would be withdrawn from the
circulation at one time enough blood
to fill the tubes. In the experimental
apparatus in use this would be six
hundred cubic inches, or roughly
seven and a half pints, As the blood
of a man is normally one-thirteenth
his weight, such a quantity with.
drawn at one time would be apt to
cause trouble. Again, if there was
a vacuum within the tubes the blood
would be drawn into them from both
ends. And if there were air, the
forcing OF it into the circulation and
into the heart would at once prove
fatal.
But saline solution can be injected
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

would neutralize the poisons or the
microbes causing the maladies can
not be taken into the body because
of their deleterious effect upon GER
tain vital organs. The cure, to use
an old expression. is worse than the
disease.
But by bringing the blood stream
outside the body into contact with
such neutralizing compounds, there
is no necessity of introducing them
into the body.
Mercurial poisoning, arsenic,
strychnine, snake-venom-any kind
Of poisoning can be rapidly washed
away before it has chance to
cause the death of tissues.
1t is even predicted that microbic
diseases, now difficult or tedious to
treat, can be easily reached by
charging the solution washing the
mica tubes with chemicals that de-
stroy such bacilli
Although some doctors who wit
messed the Philadelphia demonstra-
tion We're inclined to believe that
the method would be Of great value
in treating cases of diabetes. am
extremely doubtful upon this point.
There is Of course an enormous
amount of sugar In the blood in
this disease. The distress and death
are not, however, caused by sugar.
They are caused by the fact that
sugar is not burned UP in the body
and changed into substances neces-
sary for nutrition. death from
diabetes is really a death from sugar
starvation even though the blood
carries an abnormal quantity OF it.
Washing the sugar out of the blood
would not cure diabetes any more
than destroying food man could not
eat would satisfy his hunger
But IF the poison in the blood
which prevents it from transform
ing the sugar into food could be
neutralizcd or removed. then of
course. the parient would be bene-
titcd
Marvellous as She new process is
there seems liutle reason why il
should not be successful.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

apparatus is so arranged that the
cleansing liquid can be constantly
freshly replaced. The liquid can also
be altered by chemicals to suit the
action required upon the blood.
After the washing is completed the
ends of the artery and the vein are
fastened together by the delicate but
now uniformly safe method in use,
and the patient feels none the worse
for the operation and all the better
for the clean blood
DR.. Abel made a successful demon
stration of his invention before the
Federation of American Societies
for Experimental Biology at Phila-
delpha. The subject was a dog. The
apparatus has not yet been used upon
human being, but before this
article appears it is probable that a
number Of cases will have been
treated
The practical value OF the method
is enormous In his demonstration
upon the dog, Dr. Abel said that the
process in that particular case
robbed the animal Of the sugar urea
and all the diffusable elements in the
blood BY varying the chemicals
with which the flowing stream was
treated outside the body, he de
clared, almost any poison or material
could be removed from H.
We grow and are nourished by the
diffusion OF things in the blood that
pass then into the kidneys, brain,
heart lungs, muscles and other
tissues and organs. We are poisoned
by other things in the same way.
Therefore, If the blood can be washed
Of the harmful and destructive
things, and all the beneficial and
helpful things be left in--what an
advance!
The various forms of uric acid
that causes rheumatic fever, joint
diseases, aud 50 On. can be removed
So. too. of n swarm Of other blood.
kidney heart, lymph, nerve and
other tissue poisons.
A barrier 10 the treatment OF
many diseases has been the fact that
the substances which it was known
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

STTHE torpedo bicycle is a remark
able but simple French inven-
ton that promises to double
the speed OF the ordinary bicycle tbs
machine is the invention of M. Ell
enne Bunau-Narilla. who is relative
of The noted NJ. Bunau-Yarilla, the
French financier who sold the rights
to the old French Panama Canal to
the United States Government. The
torpedo bicycle is an ordinary bicycle
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25
An Invention That Doubles Bicycle's Speed

with a peculiarly constructed wind
shield that removes all air pressure
and friction from the body of the
rider. The wind shield is made of
aluminium. This increases the rider S
power enormously.
The shield is constructed somewhat
like a torpedo, but with the broad
end in front and the pointed part be-
hind. Large celluloid windows en-
able the rider to see the road in front
of him.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

into the circulatory system without
any harm. Indeed Dr. Alexis Carrel,
of the Rockefeller Institute, has kept
animals alive for days upon such
artificial blood" The serum of the
blood is practically of the same com.
position as sea water. Cases of
hemorrhage in which the patient has
almost been "bled white" have been
held fast to life and set toward re-
covery by the injection of saline solu-
ton.
So it is, then, that when the saline
solution in the tubes is forced
through the jugular veins and seven
and a half pints of it at once go
coursing through the body, there are
no evil results. The heart goes on
pumping it just as though it were
the normal life stream.
In the meantime the real blood
has entered the tubing and is rae
ing along between the mica walls.
AS the normal serum in which the
red and white corpuscles move is OF
the same density, the same compost
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

Poisons in the Circulation
Leak" Ont.
tion and temperature of the bathing
salt solution that washes the out
side Of the tubes and of therefore
the same osmotic pressure, it does
not leak out into the surrounding
medium. But the foreign substances.
the poisons, which are of a different
osmotic pressure, do filter through
the mica walls out into the glass cy
Under and the blood, purified, is
pumped back into the body.
How often, you will ask, must the
blood be passed through the ap-
paratus before 1t Is cleaned?
And how long is this great quantity
OF the life stream actually outside
the body? The answer to the first
question depends upon the kind and
quantity OF the poison within it. II
may be necessary to wash it only
once. or IL may be necessary to wash
il many times In answer to the sec
ond question: takes the blood
twenty-five seconds to make a com
plete revolution through the body
Naturally il goes through the tubes
at the same rate. It passes through
twenty inches Of the pipes every
second This would not long enough
under any circumstances TO weaken
hv the star COMPANY. Great Britain
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25
Enlarged Section of Mica Tubing
Showing How the Blood Vessels
Wall Texture Is Duplicated in
the Blood Washing Machine.

A Mica Tube Immersed in Saline
Solution Within a Glass Cylinder
Showing How the PoisOns in the
Blood Are Washed Out Of 1t
Through the Tiny Holes.
and there is, it must be remembered,
the artificial blood which is taking
its place.
The blood may be allowed to leave
the body as many times as II Is
necessary to remove every trace of
the poison. This is determined BY
examination Of the bathing solution
and examination Of the blood, The
i0hfe Reserved
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

Diagram of DIR. Abel's Blood Washing Appara-
tus Illustrating It's Method of Operation.
The Fifty Feet of Mica Tubing, shown by the Dark
Pines, Are Contained in a Glass Cylinder Filled
with Salt Water of the Same Temperature and
Density as the Blood. The Mica Tubes Are Filled
with Similar Fluid The Carotid Artery Is Cut
and the Rubber Tube (A) Is Connected with One
Severed End Rubber Tube OBJ Is Connected with
the Severed End of the Jugular Vein. The Heart
Pumps the Blood Through the Rubber Tube (A
Into the Mica Pipes, Through Them and Out In
to the Rubber Tube (B) Which Carries the Life
Stream Back Into the Jugular and So Into the
Body Again. During the Progress Through the Mic
Those of the Arteries in Their POrOsity, the Salin
Battles It, Removing by OsmOtic Pressure the POso
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

How the Inside the Torpedo The Side Flap Shuts
~ " tight Enclosing Him in the Egg-Shaped Body
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

Surgeons Examining
the Blood
Vessels of a
Dog Whose Life
Stream Has Just
Been Washed
by the
Abel Method.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-03-17

the hook. The shallow water is now
cut into foam as the taut line is pulled
through it, and the shark splashes
with great fierceness and fights strong
ly for its life. The tugging men sway
rapidly to and fro until their efforts
are at last triumphant and the shark
is hauled in on the sand. Then a shot
through the backbone where the body
joins the head settles 1t. Sometimes
the shark measures Is or 16 feet, and
there are times when a foolhardy ma
tive has stalked up to it in it's death
struggles and met with a misfortune
similar to one I heard about a few
months ago, when a fisher had a leg
bitten clean off, and died from blood
poisoning within few hours But we
are generally wise enough to keep out
of the way Of those great, murderous
mouths, with their three regular rows
of cruel teeth.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-03-17
THE MBRELlA
Observant Man Reads Character by
Way IL Is Carried.

The man who sat nearest the win
dow said he didn't mind the wet
weather.
1T gives me a chance to see how
people carry their umbrellas" he said
Il have such firm faith in my umbrel-
la deductions that wouldn't be afraid
to choose a wife with them for a
guide"
The woman on his left smiled.
I'm glad I'm not out there in the
street." she said. You'd be picking
out all the kinks in my disposition
along with the rest Of them"
"Oh," said the man, II sized you up
a long time ago. You carry your UNI
brella, when it's furled, just like that
woman across the street You grab it
in the middle and og forging ahead
with the ends Of the handle digging
into the unfortunate pedestrians who
go before and follow after
And what does that signify?" she
asked.
"Alertness, activity, selfshness, and
nconsiderateness"
'U-m-m, thank you," said the wo-
man.
But just look at the third woman In
the procession" said the man. Il pity
the men folks about her house. 1 dare
say they have to get their own break
fast about six mornings out Of seven.
/ never yet saw a woman who dragged
her umbrella along so that you could
track her by the trail Of its tip who
was not dilatory and shiftless.
That other woman who is hustling
along. holding to the top of the UNI
brella handle like grim death andpoint
ing the tip down and forward in a kind
of south by -southwesterly direction Is
altogether different. She would set the
world on fire If it wasn't waterlogged
l am not sure that I'd want to be mar
ried to her, either. Shed be too ener-
getic. Shed push everything before
her, and when she took a notion to
clean things up a mere man would
have nowhere to lay his head. What
she is good for is serving on commit
tees.
That woman in the gray skirt is a
yea-and-nay sort Of person. She wants
to agree with everybody and follows
wherever led. Women who carry their
with the point downward
and backward are always unassertive.
But just look at that girl who spins
along, swinging her umbrella around
in a circle as If it were a magic wand.
I like her. She's jolly and good-nat-
ured and gets more pleasure out Of life
than ten ordinary people.
But here" he added, comes the
most even-tempered woman Of the lot.
She cuddles her umbrella protectingly
under her arm as If she doesn't want
even it to get hurt in the crowd. That
is thoughtful and kind."-Bol-
timore Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-03-17
WORLDS END BY FIRE
Scientist Tells Results When Seas
Bottom Gives Way.

pOttOHl SlNCo way
When the bottom Of the sea gives
way from some future volcanic dis
turbance the whole earth will be con-
sumed in flames, just as other worlds
every day are being consumed, ac-
cording to Louis Rabourdin, the French
scientist. Recent volcanic disturb
ances lead this scientist to believe that
such a time is not far distant The
earth's crust is very thin at the bottom
of the sea, he says, and he adds that
the floor on which we stand is more
frail than we are led to believe.
Mr.. Rabourdin imagines disaster
so great as to involve the whole earth.
If such an event should occur he thinks
that from a distant world its appear
ance and progress would exactly par
allel what we ourselves see in the case
of the "novea," or distant stars, that
blaze out in the heavens from time to
time.
Mr.. Rabourdin says: Suppose that
following upon an extraordinary twist
Ing movement, uue W Ielieeit VI thS
central mass, a large mass Of the sea
bottom should give, and, falling sud
denly, should let in the mass Of the
oceans waters upon the incandescent
interior matter. The water would be
decomposed by the heat, the hydrogen
would burn and it would burn more as
it had access to more oxygen The
confiagration would thus gain gradu-
ally in force, accompanied by electric
phenomena, and the greater part OF
the earth's crust, would probably be
displaced The earth, passing through
critical epoch and returning for the
time being to it's formative period,
would again be nothing but globe Of
fire.
For the far-off worlds that swing
in sidereal space this would be the
phenomenon Of a new star that blazes
out all at once, increases in brilliancy
as if it would eclipse the luminous
splendor Of all its neighbors, and then
becomes feebler and feebler, to disap-
pear finally forever in the profound
darkness Of the limitless distance"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-03-17
STAMP COLLECTING GROWS
Worlds Finest Collection, in Paris,
Worth S2,5OO,OOO.

Stamp collecting is enormously on
the increase. Not only boys at school,
but some Of the richest men in the
city are collectors. "The finest col
lection in this country is that Of the
king" Mr.. Edwin Healey, of the firm
Of Messrs. Edwin Healey company,
who have just acquired the Crawford
collection, on behalf Of a client, said:
"Other collections in this country are
the TAPPING, in the British Museum,
and that Of Mr.. Duveen Of Park lane.
THE finest collection in the world Is
in Paris. 1t belongs to M. Philip Van
Rhenotier, and is worth quite 100000
pounds.
Stamp collecting Is nice hobby,
and easily handled. 1t does not take
is wonderfully absorbing. You have
| never done learning. 1t would, in fact,
take you longer to get complete
knowledge Of stamps than to study
law. l have been at it for thirty
three years, and can still be taught
great deal"
AS an example of the growth Of the
hobby, Mr.. Healey said: I'VE have had
greater demand this Christmas for
stamp albums than for any Christmas
ever remember.
Il find that schoolmasters, even in
the London county council schools,
encourage their boys to collect; and,
what is more, they get stamps for
them, and assist them in forming the
collections. This applies to schools in
the East End as we'll as in richer neigh
borhoods. 1t is done principally as an
aid to geography.
How are collections formed? You
can only form them by purchasing
packets Of stamps and just making a
collection either Of those Of one coun-
try or general collection Of the
stamps of all the world.
There have been collections formed
by getting stamps from friends, but
no collection of this kind can be worth
much money, because people know the
value Of stamps and they are not go
ing to give away sovereigns and half
sovereigns.
Many stamps are extremely valu-
able, and in Germany at the present
time the prices Of some Of those Of the
old German states are rising so enor
mously that they are becoming al
most prohibitive.
The rarest stamp in the world is
the first issue Of British Guiana. There
is only one in existence. 1t is in the
Renotier collection in Paris, and is
worth anything up to $4,000. The first
issue of the Mauritus is also very val
liable. There are about fifteen Of them
in existence, and they are worth be-
tween G1,5O0 and e2,500 EACH
pa1l Mall Gaza