LINDBERGH'S ISLAND

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 20

LINDBERGH'S ISLAND

PURCHASE OF ILLIEC NEW' HOME OFF BRITTANY [from our own correspondent] LONDON, April 23 The famous American airman Colonel Charles Lindbergh has bought the small rocky island of Illiec, off tho north coast of Brittany, near St. Brieuc. The purchase was made from M. Norbet and M. Roger Lafont, grand-nephews of the French composer Ambroisc Thomas, who owned the island and built the feudal-style chateau, which is expected to become the summer home of Colonel Lindbergh and his family. Many famous Trench music personalities have stayed there, including Mme, Patt'i. Illiec is connected at low tide with the mainland by a stone causeway, and also with the neighbouring island of St. Gildas, home of tho celebrated surgeon, Dr. Alexis Carrel. Colonel Lindbergh is paying one of his frequent visits to St. Gildas, where he has been co-operating with Dr. Carrel in experiments 011 the "artificial heart."

The deed of purchase of the island, it is understood, was signed by Mine. Carrel. The reason is that the group of islands which includes Illiec is classed as a strategic zone, and French law prohibits foreigners from buying properties so designated.

ARTIFICIAL HEART SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS [from outi own correspondent] SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 Dr. Alexis Carrel told the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia that tne robot heart, designed by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, now can be applied to problems of .science. The Lindbergh putnp, designed to artificially keep human organs alive, has "reached the stage where is can be profitably applied to many problems in the fields' of nnatonomy, physiology, biological chemistry and pathology," the Nobel Prize scientist said. "The method has been tested in over 000 experiments, lasting about 100,000 hours," Dr. Carrel said, "and the duration of cultivation of each organ varied from two to 30 days." Colonel Lindbergh and Dr. Carrel, who is head of the division of experimental surgery of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, started work on the pump shortly after Lindbergh went to England with his wife and child.

Among tho organs, human and animal, kept alive in the pump, were livers, spleens, kidneys, hearts, lungs, arteries, veins, muscles, joints and various glands.