Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-07

| ration with DOCTOR
J Daltin, of the Lister
Institute, has discov- ~ Atpxts cARREt
cred an antseptic
which will make infection in wounds inn
possible. Leading surgeons Of France are
said to be discussing the news as entirely
authentic and expressing their qualification
over highly important development in the
history OF their profession. Doubtless the
French doctors are in possession of more
detailed information than their brethren In
America, but the reports received on this
side are sufficient to have aroused the Keen
est interest on the part of Philadelphia
physicians and surgeons, and to have con-
vlnced them that long step forward in the
prevention Of infection has been made pos
sible through the work of Carrel and Dalkin.
When, in 1918, Doctor Carrel was awarded
a Nobel prize in recognition of his genius
the creator OF a surgery of the vascular
system, large part Of the American public
| looked upon him as a fellow countryman,
and were accordingly gratihed by the honor
which had been conferred upon him and
upon the nation, but when, Immediately
upon the outbreak OF the conflict In Europe,
he volunteered his services, in any capacity,
to the French Government we remembered
that he still was citizen of France-and
we found in his departure a text for
lamentations over the seemingly unjust de-
mand upon civilization in the sacrifice of so
many genuses of science and art to the for
tunes of war. Out of Doctor Carrel's work
in the military hospitals has come, appar-
emily, new title to the honor of the present
and the gratitude Of the future. There are
many reasons to think that even on the bor-
derland of battle he may write other mo-
mentous chapters in scientific history
Ten Years in America
1t was while he was yet a student in the
University of Lyons, in the city of his birth,
that he began the interesting and important
researches which have made his name IA
nous in two hemispheres and evoked the |
highest tributes from the leaders in medi- |
cine and surgery He was graduated in 1900,
but had acted as inferno in the Hospital of
Lyons from 1896 until that date. He then
became member Of the university faculty
The merest chance brought him to the
United States less than ten years ago. He
was visiting friends in Canada, and attracted
by his interest in the new ideas being put
into practice at the University of Chicago,
he came across the border. His fame had
preceded him, for though he was then but 82
years old, he had won distinction by having
perfected the technique, now In common USE
for sewing together severed arteries and
veins. He was offered a position in the
physiological department of the University
of Chicago and accepted it, but in 1907 re-
signed to join the staff of the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research in New York.
1t was in the laboratorie of the Rocke-
Teller Institute that he made the experi-
ments and discoveries, some of them sensa-
honalized out of all keeping with their true
significance, that made him known to every
reader Of the newspapers and magazines in
America. On the fourth floor, near q window
overlooking the East River, he might, in
hose still recent days have been discovered
1t his desk, looking over his notes-a short
man, compactly built, his face bearing the
bleach OF the laboratory worker, his hair
sparse, his eye wonderfully penetrating
About him that instructive authority to be
expected in great surgeon In manner and
ak, modesty that amounts to shrinking.
FOR Doctor Carrel does not claim his great
riumphs for himself but accords full meas
Ire OF praise and appreciation to his asso-
hates. He shares publicity, in each instance.
With his collaborators. When he appears in :
lis white working Jacket, with high, closely !
'uttoned collar he looks like a militant '
medical crusader-which he is r
His Name Is Scientist r
- RtNbANN VI the pTOlOnBatlOn of .
uman life he is not a philosopher He Is h
laboratory surgeon His job is surgical 4
cience These characterizations NAV seem F
conflict with the nature OF the tasks he =
performing today in the military hospitals y
MS bleeding country, but they indicate | II
ne spirit and method OF his achievements d
etore this war came. Advances in surgical NJ
'ienee are brought about by two groups ~
len-operating surgeons like Murphy. Keen
nd the Mayo brothers, and researchers ana a
Sperimentalists like Rouse Meltzer ana OF
arFel' Doctor Carrel might have had a
rye ana profitable practice, but preferred
70 ieooFatory' scientist is the peculiarly ht s.
'seription to apply to Alexis Carrel si
Always he has been intensely oeeuniAd
.'h nus work Maybe that is why he stiu A
mains unmarried. Summers it has been 81
$ custom to visit the various institutas -. m
ientihc research in France German,, - ia
lstrla. studying new developments ga
ting the application made OF his own 5,s- tn
veries H us at
Even as a student at the TTnivers,,,, =
IONS, as already mentioned, he began h,a
seaehes along the lines of vascular s,v -
~ ana organ substitution. He then 49, sS
iVed the idea OF utilizing healthy antr.a, de
sans TO perform the work OF tbosa t,-s trs
q become diseased or injured bv a.c,Sass q.
o'hsrWise Furthermore he reasones
.er the successful demonstration of tbe
10y ~ lower animals. why could MOI ms Sp
.nAina pront by similar substitnt,onss IA
80 successes ia experimentation ba,,a gFs
'rtled the world nave Boz
= ..,se, ss4s seeeseaea IN taking living tissue
'st 'seahs' hfom animals and cails,n., prl
pa % grow and fanetionats h ON. I va
Is q the same species. He has n,a,l. ~, Per
: me leg Of one dog can be jolnss 80 ~ gs'