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...with a damaged kidney can in some cases today get it replaced with a healthy kidney from another man willing to spare the organ. But Dr. Carrel's plans of keeping whole hearts, kidneys, ovaries and other organs alive artificially were at a standstill in 1928 when Mechanic Lindbergh became his assistant. The technique was known and the nutrient fluids were at hand. But still lacking was a germ-proof device to pump the fluids through the organs...
...Lindbergh (LL. D., Northwestern and Wisconsin) put his mechanical wits to work and in May 1931 was able to publish anonymously in Science a skimpy description of a pump which Dr. Carrel desired and he designed. It consisted of a spirally coiled glass tube, resembling a hot water heater. The top opening of the Lindbergh tube was connected to the bottom opening by a straight glass tube, and the liquid sealed into the closed tubular circuit. By standing the coil on end and wobbling it, centrifugal force pushed the fluid up to the top of the spiral. There the fluid...
This was a germ-proof 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...
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...