Show Lindbergh Perfects New Mechanical Heart Lungs NEW NEV YORK June 21 UP The up-The The mechanical g genius e en n i Ius u s of ot Colonel switched to I Charles A A. A Lindbergh science Inaugurates a new cycle in medical medic l progress announced toda today in He has perfected a n new mechanical mechanIcal mechanical ical heart and lungs at the Rockefeller Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- Rocke-I Rocke feller feUer Institute where he has been working for tor several years In seclusion seclusion seclusion sion of ot his own choosing It enables surgeons to remove a whole organ such as kidneys heart spleen or glands from an animals animal's body and keep it alive indefinitely growing independently in an artificial arti arti- artificial chamber The mechanical heart furnishes artificial blood It revives organs an hour after death of ot the animal fr from m which they came This reaches a goal medicine has sought years The goal Is to tomake tomake tomake make whole parts of ot the body live Jive In glass chambers where scientists could see them and learn at first firsthand hand how they fight tight disease and arid how bow they secrete the sinews of ot health Heretofore the handicap has been that the removed organs died they died they caught bacterial infections just like a person Lindbergh's new apparatus apparatus apparatus appa appa- ratus has wiped out the infections His part of ot the contribution is the mechanical side He HEI teamed with Dr Alexis Carrel and with him signed the tho announcement made in Science Dr Carrel won the Nobel prize for achievements in keeping tissues alive outside the th body I 4 t r y k w. w ti 3 n 4 jf Colonel Lindbergh |