Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1914 — SURGEON MADE TISSUES GROW [ARTICLE]

SURGEON MADE TISSUES GROW

Detaflanof Experiment* at Rocke* feller Institute Interest French Scientists in Pari* TO AID 111 HEALING WOUNDS May Lead to Discovery of*Means of Regenerating Nervous System by Surgical Operation—Foreign Physicians Put Discoveries in Practice. Paris, France.—Physicians and medical students have bean greatly interested in a lecture delivered by Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute at one of the principal Paris hospitals; and his theories on the possibility of developing animal tissue artificially have created much discussion in the scientific world. Dr. Carrel said he had been able to keep alive the detached tissues of a cat, a dog, a guinea pig, and a human being on microscope slides for the purpose of study. These tissues, when covered with a natural plasm or liquid serum, developed to a remarkable extent. After remaining without alteration for a few hours, the cells had been seen to continue their natural growth and to spread out in all directions. “It may be possible to develop nerve tissues in this way,” said the doctor, “and If that be so, it will be possible to regenerate the nervous system by a surgical operation.” The doctor reminded his hearers that a part of one animal can be grafted into another with success, and that cases of abdominal aorta of a dog being replaced by a human thigh artery, and the principal vein of another animal being extracted and its functions perfectly taken up by a large vein which had been previously kept for some weeks in cold storage, had been successfully tried. “But the most Important feature of this branch or research is my application of it to the healing of wounds and fractures," continued the doctor. “Hitherto the study of the process of healing in living organisms has been Impossible; but by my methods I am able to watch these processes going on in the injured tissue, which has been detached from the parent body. “Although all these results have been attained at the Rockefeller Institute,” concluded Dr. Carrel, "I am bound to confess that It was French and German scientists who ware the first to pub them into practice.”