Word: carrell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Arthur G. Green, English scientist, sailed home last week from Manhattan, and his excitement was so great that he could not keep from talking with a ship-news reporter. He had seen Dr. Alexis Carrel (Nobel Prize Winner in 1912), and he had seen a piece of tissue from the heart of a chicken which Dr. Carrel cut from a live bird in 1913. The tissue is still alive and growing. Motion pictures have been taken of its processes of development...
...Carrel introduces immortality in a physical sense. It is there before your eyes, and so long as this tissue is nurtured and irrigated it will live. It cannot die. Its growth is so enormous that it doubles itself every twenty-four hours and if it had not been pared down each day since the experiment began it would now be a colossal monster overspreading all New York...
This science, contemplated by Dr. Carrel, would supplement medicine in saying civilization. Medicine, much as it does toward reducing human ills, seems to safeguard men from one disease, only to find them liable to another...
...science, through its treatment of the brain; will be a very high form of psychology. Dr. Carrel insisted, "It is obvious that the functions of the brain must be better understood in order that, without intellectual or moral deterioration the human race may stand the new conditions of life imposed on the individual by modern civilization...
...Carrel said, "Instead of merely in increasing the number of human beings, we could increase their quality. The progress of medicinal understood in this manner, would be the most important factor in the development of civilization...