Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-23
BODY EMPTIED
OF ITS BLOOD,
CONTINUES
Scientists Show Advance by
Demonstration on Dog at
Convention
WATCHERS AMAZED
AT OPERATION
Fluid Drawn Through Fifty
Feet of Tubes and
Purified
by Latest NALL

PHILADELPHIA. - Three doctors
from Johns Hopkins University, by &C
tual demonstrations ON living ami
NAL, showed to scientists Of America,
in convention here today. that it Is
possible to remove every drop of blood
from a living animal, clean the blood
of its impurities and return it to the
animal without interrupting the heart
beat.
The demonstration was conducted
ON a dog. The demonstrators were
Professor J. ]. Abel and two Of his
colleagues, Drs. l. G.. RountTee and
b. B. Turner, all of Johns Hopkins,
In their experiment they had every
drop of blood out of the dogs body,
cCursing through a coil of tubes whose
connected length measured nearly so
feet.
Scientists Watch in Wonder.
Scientists who watched the demon
stration in wonderment saw the en-
tire circulation of an animal going on
in glass tubes outside the animals
body, the blood propelled through the
tubes by the action of the animals
heart, which never stopped beating
while they watched it. At the same
time, by the use Of salt solution,
through which the blood was cours-
ing, the animals blood was being puri-
ned Of sugar, urea and all the diffus-
able materials
Professor Abel and his colleagues
would venture no prediction as to the
practical application Of their method.
The demonstration simply showed a
step in advance, they said.
DR.. Salant, head of the federal pub
lie health service at Washington, D.
c., made this comment:
1T may be possible, though I have
not tested this machine, to remove
bichloride of mercury from the blood"
Tests Hunger Machine.
DR.. A. J. Carlson of the University
Of Chicago demonstrated on himself
the efficiency of the hunger testing
machine which was his own inveu.
ton.
DR.. Carlson defined hunger as a
sensation which arises in the stonl-
ach, while appetite. he explained, Is
q vi TIC
Swallowing a small cigar-shaped rub,
Der balloon, to which had been at
tached long rubber tubes, he inflated
the balloon in his stomach through
the tubes and then attached the lat
ter to sensitized paper Hunger, he
declared, caused the muscles of the
stomach to grip the balloon and drive
out the air which registered the
amount of hunger on the sensitized
paper.
White rats and mice were used in
an experiment designed to illustrate
the diffusion of the blood supply by
dyes injected into their blood vessels
One rat was green to the end of his
tail, while even the film of his eyes
was the color of an emerald. The
other was, similarly transformed by
the use of red dye.
Brain Power not in Size.
DR.. E. Linden Mellus, who has ex
perimented for many years at Johns
Hopkins Medical school and else
where, speaking today before the
American Physiological Society at the
University of Pennsylvania, repudiat
ed all that science has known, hoped
or guessed about brain action
DR.. Mellusi said that the weight OF
brain has nothing to do with its po-
tency, and that the belief that intri
cate brain convolutions have anything
to do with intellectual prowess Is
nothing less than superstition
All previous theories regarding
mental equipment and the causes OF
it must go glimmering, if what DR.
Mellus says be true.
Examples to Bear Out Claim.
DR.. MelluS described his patient re
search among brain cells of various
individuals, and had any number o
examples to bear out his contention
The result of it all is that the man
with the big head may no longer
claim mental superiority. and that all
that we have been hearing regarding
the brains of great men seems sort
Of scientific fairy tale
Your brain may weigh a half tor
and may be as intricateIy marked a!
a cubist's necktie, and yet, if the in
visible cells have not the mysterious
quality that DR.. Mellus was unable Il
define, you may be as dull as a butter
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