Surgeons in the United States, writes the New York correspondent of the " Daily Telegraph," can now order and receive within a few hours practically every part of the human body, the same to be delivered in a living and growing condition. As a housewife in New York can be plied on demand with daily necessities, so can American surgeons be supplied with parts of the human heart, nerves, blood-vessels, spleen, some of the amaher glands of the body, the cornea of the sys, parts of the various bones, cartilages, etc.
These remarkable statements were York, is in charge of the research work at the Rockefeller Institute, to a gathering in Atlantic City of members of the American Medical Association. Dr. Carrel started the meeting by unique offer of supply, and went on to declare that it has become possible to make such j: arts live after they have been retwoved from the body. He said he could make parts live and grow nine months after life had ceased in the human body from which they had been removed. For six years these experimenta have been going on, and now that they have been completed and verified the world of cine has an opportunity to itself of the discovery.
Dr. Carrel began to experiment on the lower orders of animals. A piece of the heart of a chicken pulsated and was alive for as long as 104 days after it had been removed from the fowl, and microscopic examination revealed the fact that connective tissue was growing from it_ five months after removal. Dt. Carrel uses nine mediums in which t" pre: serve the life of structures removed from the body, and he declares that he obtains his parts for preservation by removing them from dead bodies. It is possible he cays, to transplant after death the tissues and organs which compose a body that has ceased to live into other identical organisms. In this transfer no death of the tissues occurs, and after th-y have been made part of another body life in them continues as though it had been there from birth.
Clinical reports, said Dr. Carrel, show conclusively that his system of translating is successful, so that with the experiments complete-
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