Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — Flexner Transfers Vital Organs. [ARTICLE]

Flexner Transfers Vital Organs.

A paper read before tire American A»sociation for the Advancement of Science in the University of Chicago reveals the fact that Dr. Simon Flexner of New York City has succeeded in transplanting arteries from one animal to another suercsafully. The experiments have thus far been confined exclusively to the lower animals, but the favorable results in this field are believed to point the way to a succeeMful application of the practice ta human beings.