Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-11-19
BELIEVE BRAIN GRAF TING
SCIENTIFIC POSSIBILITY
Eminent Biologist ConGdes
Startling Discovery TO One
of Colleagues.

The assertion tina; your brain can
go on living for years after YOU are
| dead sounds startling.
/ An eminent biologist Of world " III o
repute the man who discovered n
cure for ganSrcne during the war.
I has added to HIS laurcIs by demon
stratinS in the mos; practical way
/ possible that brain tissue can actual
~ be kept alive. and even growing.
/ indefinitely.
III" has in his possession. aud has
shown to DISTINGUISHED colleague
portions OF the connective tissue al.
the brain Of a man who has been
dead for ten and = hai: years. These
/ fragments arc alive and going
strong
These PORTIONS OF brain arc kept
alive ar;itcialiy very much in the
same way as they were kept alive
naturally by their owner during his
lifetime. Tha; is to say. they are
fed on lymph ,hIood's chief essen
ttan. absorbing their nourishment
through tho surface
Relieve Tissue. Grow.
u is probable that these living
some feeling. and are. like those
spirits that como through" AZ,
seanccs. quito happy. They arc said
with certainty TO grow and become
rudimcntary in character. and at
present show every prospect Of con
| tinuinE to do so
u is recognized now that even
nerve cells and fhcrs will continue
10 grow and develop apart from the
body II placed repeatedly in a fresh
nutritive medium, and looked after
with tho greatest care. And II Is an
old story now that tho human heart
has been known to continue beating
for hours after death, and that hearts
after removal from tho body can be
made 10 continue their usual func-
lions simply by providing them with
a suitable fluid medium from which
they can obtain the food and other
materials they require
Who can say what future develop
m"nts Of immense Importance to hu-
marity these discoveries may not
portcnd?
Even now tho possibilities of brain
grating present themselves Skin
grating and hone grating arc done
successfully every day. Some day.
/ perhaps. We shall have mastered tho
technique Of removing the tissues Ut
ono mans brain when he is dead
ana grating them on to the brain
+ Of living person.
I Parts of nnimals--hon-. glands and
! so "n-hav" already been grated
/ with the best results. and ,hcrc is
! no reason known to science why
! what is possible with tho lower ami
/ mails aud man should not also nc pos
/ sihlc with man himself and man.
Future Holds Possibilities.
Ih" future holds possibilities Of
/ tho removal of diseased patches nf
! brain tissue in the living. and the
| substitution for them of hcasth Y
! brain matter In this way il might
he possible TO ohviate tho worst et
| tccts--paralysi % movement and
| sation--rcsultinE from small
area of brain having been put out
| Of action ny accident or disease.
Mauy cases Of ncurshle insanity.
/ epilepsy. aud kindred abnormalitlcs
Uf tho brain are du" to a small area
81 diseased cerebral tissue. which
might he removed aud replaced by
perfectly healthy material.
I Whether IL Will ever he rossih lie
I" graft portions Of dead genius
an tn" bra Of living mcdiocrit!cs
remains 10 lee seen. Rut We may find
uatur, on" too many for us in all
attempts - found a race Of supormcu.
There arc many difficulties to he
overcome before surgeons can handle
AID explore til" contents OF the iiv-
ing skull as freely as they do that OF
the rest OF the body.