Show SItI Sn It III 1 a Thill i Hn I I a St a Chicago Dc be Record tomor tomorrow row roe will say MY omi turtles have con convinced vinced nr Dr Jacques el Iol and r D J 1 Lingle physiologists at the University lt of Chicago that common salt In th the blood snakes the heart beat Whit Vt I is more they claim that not only dues doe salt keep the heart In action but Jul that It possibly may caule time the hurt hart to beat again after It h has once stopped For several months Dr Loch and amid have been experiment lg to secure lecure tIme necessary result to prove proe theIr theory The They hive con dueled a serl series or of delicate scientific tests bearing upon time the pul pulsation atlon of the heart hert and today loday made public tim tho an that the results they oh ob tithed had beyond bIond doubt their theory Ol that the p of salt lilt In the blood Ih the beats of the heart In the experimental work bv the two to physiologist turtle u used d almost After snipping oft the head In all as humane a wa way a as possible the lower pArt ot of the shell helt was sa re moved and amid the heart taken possession of ot of taking the organ orlan as a I whole a small malt strip from Crom one olle of 01 tIme the I ventricles w was used The blood was wa removed remond and the piece of nash sus u In different In thIs way their conclusions were adduced Dr Leb Loeb and Ind Professor claim that the fallacy of the farl early belief that the bert heart bat beats because I it I is tul full or of blod blood Wi was quickly shown hown when a strip of the turtles heart WI wu suspended In Ina ina a solution of salt and a regular series of Jt ball beats began bean Separated from all lne nerve ln the lifeless strip of I heart muscle responded to 10 the Presence ot of the salty aly solution I For or week the worked 1 to a ascertain wha what quai qualities tel II salt is to cause this rhythmic beating ot of the hear heart that w were re not possessed h by calcIum or potassium the salts of which enter Into the composition of the blod The They found Cound a solution ot of the In the feet Cel that the arton action of sodium chlorIde or common lal salt WI aa due to 10 the uliar character of the sodium In making the investigations they discovered that Jure pure sodium chlorIde solution was wa destructive ot of hert heart lue tissues and nd by mixing calcIum and potassium solutions with the so 10 sodium they found that the poisonous destroyed efret effects ot of the chloride were wel |