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Show I STORE LIFE IT DEATH DOOR Simon Plexner of Rocke-ller Rocke-ller Institute Tells of Advance Ad-vance in Surgery. VULAR DISEASES OP HE HEART MAY BE CURED ibility, Also, of Cutting ay Diseased Portions of Lungs in Tuberculosis. irsonB apparently dead can be )ied to life, sarts "which have ceased to heat made to live again and finally ecover. jerations on the lungs may 5 day effect recovery from ad-ied ad-ied tuberculosis. Lungs that no er breathe may .be forced to In air and resume their func-cn func-cn and women who are practi-r practi-r dead may be restored by ping blood from another into : arterieB. lere is every reason to believe valvular diseases of the heart, which no remedy was believed xist, may bo curable by surg-ased surg-ased Wire to The Tribune. iV YORK, March 11. Dr. Simou jr, head of the Rockefeller insti-f insti-f surgery, the man who cou-I cou-I meningitis, believes that final-dical final-dical science will overcome death tan c.:m live to an indefinite ne- tjH. "When surgeons first tried to open iKj chest cavity to reach the heart. rfM lungs, "the lungs collapsed like a .Hr of bellows punctured. A German !3;eon constructed a,n air chamber JHr tho hea"rfc, with room for the oper-JHjjig oper-JHjjig surgeon and his assistants. In tHi sauerbruch chamber, so named PHer its iuventor, many operations on !JK cheat cavity were performed. Re-Bt Re-Bt experiments at the Rockefeller in-&Kute, in-&Kute, however, indicate that the cham-can cham-can be done away with and the tfHigs kept goiug by a tube placed in 8v windpipe, through which a cur-?jit cur-?jit of ether and air is forced into IwSBb luns. Thus far these tests have $361 confined to animals, but their aSBecessfuJ application to man is proin- jEfCould this process be used to re-gKe re-gKe life?" Dr. Flexner was asked. (2?HOh, jes; it does now," he replied. , )fH is similar to the process of resusci-:rwtion resusci-:rwtion in drowning. The air pumped 'fMf,the lungs can actually bring a per-' fc;to life who has to all intents and Kp'bses been, you. might sa', practi-uwB practi-uwB ea- -n(l the same way with fW:'lieart. But the operation has to tbfeKperfornied quickly while the tissues -Histill alive. That the heart can be WjHpe to resume its action again is picMBfof the most amazing things we sflHfo been able to do with the human 'j$HWith valvular diseases of the Jljfct.'" Dr. Flexner continued, "we mbHF huvc Tcason to hope that a cure il'gMj be found iu surgical operation. Wj.tfMpiay become possible, too, iu cases -ftavanced tuberculosis to cut out the ia?fcased portions of the lungs as we terjfcppcratc on a diseased liver or kid-"Wo kid-"Wo do not need all the area n?iJBr 'U,,K8 breathe with, you Bw. This discovery will undoubted' jSllfcesult in rolonging life or saving "trftB16 of those who would otherwise die i rfjHLCould a person suffering from a 5 WP?e like typhoid fever be cured," . Rvoxner was asked, "by trans- 10,-. blood from another when 'BliiiBf'-,"'00'! contained an antidoto for 4 2 disease?' ' R hardly know about that," ho re- rtSBV n typhoid fever, though, lives tR-i een 8UVC1 aftcr hemorrhage by transfusion of blood from an- SmCould blood be transfused to save ;el5Bv of a WW person?" Kemf ' 60 onK as Uly were not quite itf JRf, Flexner replied. li jK.J,1e (enfl have practically been re-cfefinHSjL re-cfefinHSjL Pi' transfusion in this mctliod. . $mL heu tlGrves are severed by acci-ttu acci-ttu or "P.rations paralysis usually : yoarjB't5' Kov the nerves are sewn to-p to-p GBer .as a broken bone would. Where o of 1,10 ervcs cannot be joined '"h ,f a neighboring nerve is spliced jako it whole." mtlNKfog the sufferings of au animal JklaK 0Pcation:3?,, Dr' 3'lcxcr IpotKt' 1B a pity the way animal cxpun-nti cxpun-nti BT'3i,S spo'cn o a3 vivisection," ho . evSKif'ii, "T'ie 'ca comes down to us J. aK1' the day when experiments were bftnTiEV" al,in'a,s- 13 t it is a painless , iDJHtJOn. If you had been subject ed 2B; hypodermic injection of morphine y liOfHUd you caj vivisection? In ani-a ani-a tlfBtPWimonts 90 per cent of the ..mifiME, consist, of hypodermic in joctions. -.t,1,11" 5covcrv of tho tubercule hue- 1 -Zm1 ?xP'atl Dr. Flexner, "was oH.KWfl(lo,until we )orfofmod experi-In'fi experi-In'fi 'flE8! aH" produced tuberculosis in ni-tvWi-8- Wo learned in that way that. eawrUiseasc is infectious. Thnt is, you Lt "ot expectorate, you must keep w!,el? clean, to protect your fam- |