The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY JANUARY 24, 1814. NEW ERA IN SURGERY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 21, 24 January 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY JANUARY 24, 1814. NEW ERA IN SURGERY.

A) remarkable and certainly sensational prediction was made at the recent Medical Conference in London by D;r. Voronoff, who read an important paper on his experiments in the transplanting of vital organs from one animal to another. He looked forward to a period, lie said, when those who suffer from disease of any part of the body will have the part replaced by a corresponding part taken from someone who lias died accidentally. lii- , deed, Dr. Voronoff anticipates a new I era for human surgery. Those condemned to death when this happens by incurable diseases will he given new | life, arteries and whole organs will lie ((grafted, and sterility will be transformled into fruitfulness, for Dr. Voronoff holds out hope in this direction also. Asked where these new parts were to come from, Dr. Voronoff replied that , every day throughout the world millions of healthy people die accidentally. The engines of progress—trains uul motor-cars—are the death-dealers to humanity. Death does not mean ithe immediate disintegration of our iujternal organs ; if they he taken away within six hours and grafted anew, [they can be grafted successfully. He fold his hearers he had taken those of an animal two hours after its death, preserved them for an hour in Ringer’s liquid, and they had regained all their

vitality. They could be frozen and preserved for several days. “What does d! this mean P It means that we shall prolong life by borrowing from death. It means that we shall give the means of life and reproduction where none existed.” 'lT;at is the doctor’s dictum.