Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-01-04 | Page 13 | [Illegible] Heal Wounds in [Illegible] and Repair Broken Bones within Four

I rAY IY HEAL WOUNDS IN INDAY INDAY DAY AY AND REPAIR BROKEN 1 I BONES E WITHIN H FOUR R tw Now York Jan an S. S Possibility 81 t that the year ear 1913 will see the marvel of ot broken bones repaired for tor use usa within four tour days and wounds healed within ono one day Is forecast b by Dr Alexis Carrel of or the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research whoso whose success last year ear earwon won him tho Nobel obel prize for tor dna The announcement of his marvelous predictions appears Inbe in inha ha be current Issue of the tho official organ or- or gan of ot the tho Rockefeller Institute 1 if Aided b by knowledge that growth of the body Is dependent in many I respects on tho the more or lesa mysterious mss mys activities of ot some of ot tho thc I ductless tho tho thyroid for tor In- In tance Dr Dr Carrel applied a mixture mix mix- ture turo of oC thyroid extract and macer- macer lILted ted portions of ot other organs of tho ody to wounds Ho found the tho experiments to bear out outI I Is belief bellet that If It the rate of ot the reparation PreparatIon of ot tissues were vere acU I le ted led ten iines only a R. wound would heal in less than I twenty four hours and a fracture of the leg would be cure cured in four or five days a S I 4 i nUnu C Continuing nt with more radical e c es- es on lIve Jive animals with the jise iise of ot otan an extract from tho the em cm- tissue he lle found this in- in th tho growth s rort forty times In other thor words it if this were the ficat Icat ical application of ot his discovery discover to human wounds that would heal normally In forty lays days they the would heal hrat In one day dap Experiments with various other extracts of ot tissues j ho hoYed healing powers ran ranging from rom from throe three to to tort forty times greater than normal plasma ph Applied to tocones tones cones he found that pulp made mado of thyroid glands gland produced a n. pro- pro pounced thickening which accelerated I the tep rn reparation process I