| Show Dead Hearts Brought Back to Life Aid Effects Drug-Effects Study ST. ST LOUIS Hearts Hearts from dead men revived and brought to life are giving new knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of how to use the drugs that aid heart afflictions ExperIments Experiments ments meats wherein fresh blood was pumped through dead human hearts until they started beating treel freely again have c Just been reported by Dr William B. B Kountz of ot Washington Washing ton University School of or Medicine here bere The drugs commonly used well to treat heart disease may be helpful or harmful armful depending on the state of or the heart Doctor Kountz In III t the e t type pe of ot heart disease Doctor Doctor Doctor Doc Doc- tor Kountz Investigated and reported report report- ed to the Southern Medical association association the small arteries of the muscles muscles muscles mus mus- cles Itself Itsel are closed Blood mood therefore therefore there there- fore cannot get through to nourish the muscle and keep the heart at work pumping blood Into the rest of or the body I Physicians bavo have lately been I treating this heart beart ailment by givIng giving giving ing drugs that would dilate the closed or dangerously narrowed arteries ar nr- teries on the theory that wl widening t the e arteries would help bep to keep the blood flowing through them T They ey learned which drugs drubs to use by studying the drugs drug's action on the heart beart arteries of ot animals Tho The use of or the expanding artery druS drugs In human buman cases of heart disease disease dis dis- ease has however not been entirely entire entire- ly y satisfactory Doctor Kountz observed ob ob- ob- ob served Ills search seems to show why In human hearts he be found Cound the state of or the thc heart or the tone of the heart muscle Is the chief factor Influencing the flow of or blood through the hearts heart's arteries Doctor Kountz tried the effect of ot various common heart medicines such as ns the tn nitrites liver extract and ond adrenaline adrenaline adrena line on the hearts he had revived re Their action on the heart was entirely en en- different when the heart henrt muscle muscle muscle mus mus- cle was waa contracted titan than when It W was waa 9 relaxed I |
