Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old son stepped up to the console, took his father's place. Six years later Son Raymond Huntington Woodman became organist at First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn. He is still there, a goateed, white-haired, 74-year-oldster who has written many a song, anthem and organ piece, played more than 50,000 numbers. Genteel Organist Woodman says: "When I first went into music it was regarded as equivalent to retiring from social life. Many well-known musicians of bad habits and poor principles had so harmed the profession that the public held it in little regard...
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...
...nourish those organs, they circulated growth-activating fluids which Dr. Lillian Eloise Baker of the Rockefeller Institute supplied them, containing blood serum, insulin, thyroxine, vitamin A, vitamin C, etc. The ''lungs'' of the apparatus refreshed the "blood" with a steady injection of air composed of 40% oxygen, 3% carbon dioxide, the balance nitrogen. The whole apparatus was kept at blood heat in an incubator, was rocked so that "blood" pulsed through the organ, almost exactly as in life...
...Rockefeller Institute experimenters last week had no such fantastic ideas. They believe that knowledge of the human body is the sum of knowledge of each one of its parts. Hence they intend to study one organ at a time in their machine. Thus they hope to make the thyroid gland, the adrenals and each of the other endocrine glands yield their hormones in pure form and in such abundance that endocrinologists will no longer be obliged to haunt slaughterhouses for their supplies. Thus, too, they hope to watch hardening developing in arteries, goitres in thyroids, tuberculosis in lungs, rheumatic fever...