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Show HEART BEATS IN SERUM Frenchman Discovers Way to Preserve Vitality of Separated Organs. Discuvery of a new method, not only of retarding decomposition, but also of temporarily preserving the vitality uf organs separated from bodies, has 'boon rcnortod by Doctor .Elig, of Mont-pellicr, Mont-pellicr, Prance. Professor Bouchard told tho Acad-01113' Acad-01113' of Science that Doctor Fleig had prepared an artificial scrum, including all the principal salts contained in healthy human blood, chiefly compounds of limo and potassium. The hearts of various animals continued (0 beat iu 1 tho serum several days. The longest period that life was nfainlnincd in This wav was ono week. Experiments are to be made with the scrum on living animals to nscrtain its effect on stimulating vitality. |