White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-01-11

WITH LIFE BLOOD
REMARKABLE APPARATUS MAY
WORK WONDERS IN CLEANING
THE HUMAN BODY OF DISEASE
GERMS.


from a living creature, propelled by
the creatures heart beats through
tubes, purified. during its passage of
germs. and returned to the heart,
rid of the bacilli that threaten disease
If not death. And the heart never
ceases to beat.
This astounding fact was demon
|strated at the meeting of the Fedora
ton of American Societies for Ex-
perimental Biology, in Philadelphia,
by Professor John Jacob Abel and
his collaborators, Drs. l.. G. Rown-
tree and b. B. Turner of Johns Hop
kins university, Baltimore.
They employed a dog to show that
the new and curious method may be
most useful in humans. in their
demonstration they had every drop
of blood out of the dogs body eours-
ing through a coil of tubes. the con-
neeted length of which measured
nearly fifty feet.
oifthAfoIo WIN Wattntu III nOHd1i-
ment saw the entire circulation of an
animal going on in 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 IL.
At the same time, by the use of a
solution through which the blood
was conrsing, the animals blood was
being purified of sugar. urea and all
the diffusable materials. By vary
ing the solution, and sending the
blood through chemicals of different
sorts. other kinds of poisons can be
removed from the blood by the same
process.
Professor Abel and his colleagues
eonservatiyely would venture no pre-
dietion as to a practical application
OF their method in medicine. The
demonstration simply showed a step
in advance. they said. and they did
not car to discuss its possibilities at
this stage in their research.
Scientists who witnessed the DEM
~onstration, however. did not conceal
their enthusiasm over the oppor-
tunity opened up by the Baltimore
men. DR.. Salant, head of the FEEDER
al Public Health service in Washing
ton. made this comment:
This apparatus is positively the
newest thing for cleansing the blood
1t Is the most interesting thing in
this convention. 1t may be possible.
though | have not tested this ma
chine, to remove bichloride of mer-
curry from the blood"
In his address DIR. A. T. Carlson. of
the University of Chicago, defined
hunger as a sensation which arises in
the stomach, while appetite, he TX
planned. Is a nervous phenomenon of
the brain.
Swallowing a small, cigar-shaped
rubber balloon which had been fitted
with 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 sensi-
tized paper.
White ats and mice were used in
an experiment designed to illustrate
the diffusion of the blood supply
Dyes injected into their blood vessels
circulated in a short time until the
little animal changed the color of
their flesh without apparent discom-
fort.
One rat was green to the end of
his tail; even the film of his eyes was
emerald. The other was similarly
transformed by red dye.