Evening star., 1939-05-18

apparently all digestive works stop.
But this, ordinarily a signal of ap-
preaching death, seems of no dan
ger, because at the same time analy-
sis of the blood shows it has ceased
to fill up with waste products.
There is nothing to eliminate.
Metabolism itself slows down 10 tc
20 per cent.
They should die of pneumonia, Lut
not one has ever shown a sign of
pneumonia. They haven't caugh;
cold or anything else whatever as
yet. The germs in their bodies ap-
parently slow down along with the
entire organism.
Heretofore when a patients tenn
perature dropped even close to 90
the physician has prepared to write
a death certificate The books taught
that below 80 was impossible Tor
life. The Philadelphians have car
ried one woman down to aobut 81,
but did not leave her there long.
Complete Heart Rest Seen.
Specializing medical watchers say
that this is new tool in the history
of science. They say it ought to give
the heart a complete rest, like moth .
ing else can, and so perhaps prolong
life in that way.
They point to the recent sensa..
tional treatments for INSANITY
through insulin and camphor shock
There the patient sinks into a deep
coma close to death and coma seems
to be the cause of improvement.
Here, the specializing doctors say
Is coma safer, longer and appar-
emily more reStful, for insanity.
tuberculosis is germ disease
II, again say the visiting physicians
who watched this exhibit, the bac-
terra will slow down while tissues
heal in Information, perhaps the
body's defenses will be able to throw
off tuberculosis when the sleeper
awakens.
There is evidence in the Phila-
delphla experiments, that the ap-
pearance of repair tissue" which
is normal healing, is not slowed
down SO fast as at least some dis
ease processes.
Tried on Hopeless Cancer.
If this is true, then Information
might be tried on any kind of germ
infection. Whether there will be a
miraculous "differential" in any
disease has yet to be learned.
The great fact of proof of human
Information is generally accepted by
the visiting experts.
The Philadelphians tried this on
hopeless cancer because expert
ments showed that cancer cells
cooled to 80 or a little under, do not
afterWard grow. This is a strange
fact, because cancer cells frozen
down even to 100 below zero. are
not killed, and grow again when
warmed up.
The Philadelphia experiments in
dicate that young cells, which form
10 to 80 per cent of wildly growing
cancer, are killed by SO degrees
The result in the patients is de-
crease in size Of cancer and in pain
Treatment Given Seven.
Hibernation has been given tc
seven persons, five women and two
men.
All Of these persons asked for the
treatment for relief of pain; they
were not experimental human
guinea pigs
The Information has been given
only since last October, but was
preceded by three years of local ap-
plication of cold on 38 persons
which proved that cold relieves pain
and reduces cancer growth.
Cells killed at SO are the embryonic
or youthful cancer cells. The adult
cancer cells, which in many types OF
this disease are in the minority, are
not supposed to be killed. The ex-
perimentS have not gone far enough
to make certain that adult cells are
completely unaffected by this mild
cold. Other experiments on chick
embroyos and embryonic plants in
dicate that mild cold either inhibits
or kills most, if not all kinds, of
embryonic tissue cells.
When cancer cells are frozen at
100 below zero it is believed the
adult cells are the ones which sur
vive. In these low temperature
freezing experiments it is not feas-
ible to recognize the difference be-
tween embryonic and adult cancer
cells.