LIFE AFTER DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1747, 12 May 1913, Page 5

LIFE AFTER DEATH.

WONDERS OF MEDICAL RESEARCH RECENT DISCOVERIES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Washington, May 9. Papers by medical authorities read at tho Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons announced that life was sustained in tho tissues of animal organisms four years after tho animals from which the tissues had been taken had died. One physician declared that there was a probability of an ultimate demonstration that lifo was sustainable in tissues as long as the animal would havo lived normally. DR. CARREL'S WORK. Medical research has in recent years made remarkable progress in regard to tho investigation of uniiual tissues. By the researches of Dr. Alexis Carrel, who was recently awarded a Nobel Prize of "tie boundary of experiment in tho prolongation of life," remarked one commentator, "has been pushed forward another degree." ! "The results obtained by Tuffler, Magitot, and' niyself," said Dr. Carrel, "demonstrates that, human tissues preserved in cold storage could bo used in human surgery. If at were possible," he said, 'to transplant immediately after death the tissues and organs which compose tho ibody into other identical organisms, no Elemental death would occur, and all tho constituent parts of tho body would continue to live. Tho organs of the animal which continued to live for ten hours in IDr. Carrel's laboratory, were taken by 2iim and placed in the solution which a Very infinity of .experiments had taught Jnim was the one required.' The blood :had to bo aerated continuously by the Artificial respiration supplied from ox.v(gen pumps, and tho desired temperature was maintained through the laboratory Equipment,' much as it is preserved." , '. Dr. Carrel has succeeded in separating from the lx>dy and brain and nervous fcystem of a warm-body animal that aniimal's heart, stomach, liver, intestines, kidneys, and bladder, .and of having these tirgans live and functionate under his eyes jor ten hours. As tho culmination of inany weary months of progressive experimentation, bo had in his laboratory a dog's heart beating 120 beats a minute, just as though nothing had happened, a dog's stomach digesting food as though tho brain were in its-seat directing the whole, operation, a dog's intestines and kidneys . functionating as though the surgeon's knife had never been near—an entire system of organs alive outside th» body, an animal killed and its viscera livins. >