FLESH KEPTALIVEBY SCIENCE

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1224, 5 September 1911, Page 4

FLESH KEPTALIVEBY SCIENCE

[ —*— 1 HEALING STUDIED UNDER THE ; MICKOSCOPB. ! A lecture of extraordinary interest wai f given in Paris recently, before th< i Pasteur Institute, by Dr. Carrel, thi 1 well-known surgeon who is at the head o: [ tho Rockefeller Institute. Hβ said that he had been ablo to kee] . alive and cultivate animal tissues cu - .from the body, and )mA actually studiec 3 the healing of wounds upon these tissue; " under the microscope He found tha ; • he could hasten or retard the process - and prophesied that science would be abl< > to apply tho results of his researches ti f the surgical treatment of living animal ■ and men. • "At the beginning of last winter," In said, "my assistants and-I'succeeded n cultivating adult tissues of mammal apart from the organism. Just a microbes can be cultivated; in tubes or oi glass films, t>o I succeeded in studyin; [1 life on ii microscopic slid". Tissue ~ placed on a glass slide and covered wit' ~ natural plasma or a liquid serum develo j admirably. After some hours' immobilit, y one sees tha cells become animated. J t bluish hah is perceptible, showing tha (. the cells continue to live- and cicvolo •. away from the organism. The life c !. these cultivated cells is very variable o Thus cancerous cells die vpry quickly, i six or eight days. The cells of splee: ; . and skin can live a month." \. Dr. Carrel here mado a prediction c i s tho highest interest: IV "Iu the question of cicatrisations, nftc 1, thousands of years of surgery, we slia! ,j bo ablo to cicatriso a cutaneous wouu e in a fen- hours, and a fracture in a fei d days. We have at the Rockefeller Inst (1 tute mado small wounds on fragments c 1, a frog's skin. According to tho greater c r . less dilution of tho plasm placed on th , r wound, we have seen tho work of cicatr ie sation increase or diminish iu large pr< | s pertions. Thess observations can bo c _ t the utmost utility when wo pass to th , r study of cicatrisation in tho hiehe n animals."