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...pump. By suitable ingress and outlet, Dr. Lindbergh was able to force oxygen or other gases into the continuously circulating fluid and draw it off again. Thus he had a mechanical duplicate of the lungs, heart and blood vessels. Nothing remained but to modify this apparatus so that Dr. Carrel could attach a heart, kidney or ovary...
Last spring, according to Dr. Carrel, "a model was developed that for the first time permitted an entire organ to live outside the body. . . . After 123 years the conception of Legallois was realized...
Pushing ahead with their experiment. Drs. Carrel and Lindbergh chloroformed and bled to death adult chickens and cats. They extirpated hearts, kidneys, ovaries, adrenal glands, thyroid glands, spleens and within an hour connected the arteries of those organs with the circulating system of their aseptic wobble pump. Pump and organ were inclosed within an aseptic glass tank...
What the experimenters saw take place dumbfounded and delighted them. Dr. Lindbergh hastened to write a detailed description of the apparatus for the Rockefeller Institute's abstruse Journal of Experimental Medicine. It will appear later this year. Dr. Carrel, who says Assistant Lindbergh has "one of the keenest and most intuitive and inventive minds possible to imagine,'' wanted to tell the world of science the all important things they had done. Last week Science printed their joint report?one of the clearest papers to come out of the Rockefeller Institute in all its 32 years of existence...
...their collaboration Drs. Carrel & Lindbergh reported: "Changes in form and volume took place in the organs from day to day. Thyroid glands perfused with diluted serum were observed to decrease in size progressively. On the contrary, ovaries or thyroids perfused with a growth-promoting medium modified their form and grew rapidly. In five days, the weight of an ovary increased from 90 mg. to 284 mg." Simultaneously yellow spots which developed on the ovaries suggested that they, while attached to the glass heart, might actually have produced eggs. If so, laboratory technicians conceivably might some day fertilize and incubate such...