KIDNEYS MADE FROM GLASS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1924, Page 1

KIDNEYS MADE FROM GLASS.

SAX' KHANCISCO, .lulv O .Much prominence recently has hern adored the frequent discoveries of American scientists, hut probably one of tlie strangest was that mentioned a few days ago at the Hopkins Aledieal School in Baltimore, where it was slated that German scientists are planning to use an artificial kidney invented by Dr John J. Abel, of the famous Johns Hopkins Aledieal School of Baltimore. This curious product ol tlie genius i f the Baltimore medico lias been used to save life in cases ol corrosive sublimate poisoning and other maladies where death is a consequence of overworking the kidneys. Efforts, however, to use the artificial kidney in that manner have been made in Baltimore, hut failed because Dr Abel’s work on it was interrupted by the World War. and lie could not make it available for use in his home city. Physicians believe that through ii many lives which otherwise would be sacrificed will be saved in the future, cspeciallly the lives of those who attempt suicide by taking bichloride of mercury.

The artificial kidney is said to make it possible to relieve tlie natural kidney of all work for hours. Tlie lalse kidliev is a tube of glass and other matter which can he attached to the arm of some other part ot the body. It is connected with an artery on one side and with a vein on the other, so that the Wood Hows through it. The impurities are filtered hy means ot the artificial kidney and are drawn irom the false kidney while the real kidneys rest. It is now proposed to introduce the artificial kidney into the chemical factories in certain parts ~l Cerniany where contact with highly poisonous compounds lias affected the industrial workers there.