SURGICAL MAGIC.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1923, Page 4

SURGICAL MAGIC.

GRAFTING KYKS AND CHANGING HEADS. LONDON. Fob 7. I iie fir.-ift injx of o.ves and changing () t Iliads on insists aro sunn- examples of modern witchcraft described at a scientific meeting of the London Zoologit a 1 Society by Mr E. (I. Botilcnger, F.Z.S. -Mr Eonlenger has just visited the Biological Experimental Institute at Vienna, olid his account nf what he was shown and told sounded lih.e a nightmare in even his camion- and I no !i-c< -in initial language. One Viennese -Indent Walter Kinkier specialises in changing i n • headof a species of large water hens le with another. Thera is a quick -uip. of cxtermely sharp s i.--ors and tin exchange i- made in a few second-. The la ad(a incut tliem.-elres hy coagulation and tin- creatures are returned to the water to -tart a new existence, winch may last more than two months. .Mr Boulanger was told, a.l-o. that a worker in Svii serin 'id has ju-t h-.-mi ’..hr, ing -on.a grim jol-.es on ants, lie claims that he cut oil the head of a omen ant and gave her tic head of a. work: r. v. le. renpon site elianged her mode of Id'e and went about leaking, for "work.” Lastly, and in a very caution- way. .Mr Eoutciigor gave an account ot the experiments in restoring sight -by g.railing actual eyes. Rats, toads, and fish were experimented upon. Eyes surgically removed w; re replaced hv other eye. from the same species. Mlie'n the .■rails unit-d | rmim-iv blindness contimed for a feu weeks, hut constant . -I- -bowed it was claimed, that sight ■a a.- gradual!'.' restored. i ■; thsiT •!■■: iti (itif; OF ANIMALS TO nr MANS. T : a !;o ill made ii,- I)r Crndiei. of I lord, 1 .! 11 \, l 1 i.i! ho lias mh-i eed: d in transfusing iim Idoed ol aiiinmls t” human being,-. 'I lta doctor also inlima les that his discovery will rival in popularity the gland gralting ol Dr Voronolis Patients he d-cl ires. leali-c sill h nmm liable (-(feels from animal blood thai they invariahly ask to bare the operaLmn r-jaatted. The result cliiimed by Dr ( ruchet lias been considered impossible by phv- . loinnw I’iier is siippovd to l.e an irrooouicihdiic diifioviuc in tlie structure ol the Mood of animals and of man. The serum of animal blood in all expi l imenis lias destroyed the corpuscles of human blood. Dr Crochet.. stirred by the danger to patients in certain cases in European i ounifies v. Imre t Imr;' i- no system ot retained Id " d donors to be called by i lM.~i.it in cmergenci: s. limn'd to | -u; ply 1 I'm defcielli V. Ile -tarl -d cx- ! poi inicm • by trnii-ioniiiog tk ' ' 'r-otl j~, . umoo |os dog- am! cow.- to rahj ( ittin n ■o; bh.ud of 1 ows and sheep 11 a m fm-i m blood . on'aim d I■' net' cent nf sodium citrate f> prevent ;i mid :iri ordiug to tile statemem- ol tie doctor, the t ralistUMOii , -c ! il ii! lain ell llllt ot Slated! "Vm-mosi bv lid- s,u■ m ■ h.c n-M 1:;,.; -; u-cd a si. -ep's blood to human i undents. Th • op-, ration wa- i.dlowcd lu. , bid-, ami -buhl i- ear. huh oi iv, bn-li quirki\ dn opyarml. Ihe p:i- ---' ii-ut- showed rapid iinprovcmi lit "till i da- return of apis tite and ■ Molir. Dr . ( nielr l si aft - tha : a ■ U. -am P ’ I, haul uni v I mam- e it v. a - einvi tlielll am! dm th ■!of a iiw -e or ot 1 ' r ma.m----s OSKffiR S2E iuSLXXL&jnJr* K2i 4323323