U.S. MEDICAL CLAIM
Keeping Human Organs Alive STUDY OF DREAD DISEASE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright NEW YORK, June 21. Apparatus and technique capable of keeping human organs alive outside the body have been perfected by Dr. Alexis Carrel and Colonel Lindbergh, working under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. This announcement is regarded as one of the most sensational in the annals of medicine and science. According to the report jointly signed by Dr. Carrel and Colonel Lindbergh. they created an ‘‘artificial heart and a man-made blood stream,” enabling science, for the first time, to keep vital organs alive and functioning indefinitely in what was described as “a chamber of eternal life.” Their methods, as perfected with the organs of animals, “consists of the transplantation of the organ or of any part of the body into a sterile chamber and of its artificial feeding with nutrient fluid through the arteries.” They point out that the process is not a substitute for the well known tissue culture, but through the employment of complex mechanical surgical procedures tho whole of the organs are enabled to live isolated from tho body. Tissue culture deals with cells as units ot structure; their method deals with cellular societies as an organic whole. The method makes possible the carrying on of important experimentation with human organs. Heart disease, kidney disorders, hardening of the arteries, diabetes, tuberculosis, cancer and other dread diseases can now be studied closely under controlled conditions. Dr. Carrel and Colonel Lindbergh
vcaled that 26 experiments had been performed since the latest model of their chamber had been constructed. Fowls and cats were generally used. Dr. Carrel is a former winner of a Nobel Prize and one of the discoverers of the so-called CarrellDakin solution, which saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of allied soldiers in the world war. Colonel Lindbergh is the famous American aviator,
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 160, 22 June 1935, Page 8
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