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Show 1 DISCOVERIES IN MEDICINE. I-' v The Amer.ican.Medicai asssociation regularly sends out bulletins on.importnhtlcventh in the medical world, and its latest announcement announce-ment the. recording of a distinct ' triumph ,for medical research wtjrk in this country." -This year for the first time the Nobel prize in medicine comes to thw country Alexis Carrel, who brings.this honor to American medicine, was born in France in 1873 and graduated as a doctor of mcdieme from themveraity of Jjyons in 1D00. Shortly afterward he came' to -this country and worked; for a year or two in the physiologic physio-logic laboratory pf thP University of Chicago, where he accomplished remarkable results- m the suture of blood vessels, and began his work on the transplantation of organs. SQon after the opening of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research Mn New York he joined its fltaff, and it is there 'that he has done the work for which he now receives the Nobel prize. This work has attracted wide notice. The rtBiilts ho has obtained in experimental surgery, more particularly in the surgery of blood vessels and in the transplantation of organs and of limbs, arc characterized in the Journal of the American Medical Association as nothing less than, sensational; they show. a marvelous technical skill, perseverance and sciqntifie ingenuity at the same time as i hey indicate possibilities of surgery heretofore undreamed of. His recent exploits in the cultivation of tissues outside-of the body pi onuses now knowledge Of biologic and physiologic processes. The Nobel prizes were founded by Alfred Nobel, n Swedish engineer en-gineer and jnventor of high explosives, lie directed that the income of ji large sum of money should be divuL'd each year -into-fivc prizes in physics, ehemiMry, physiology or medicine, literature and in work toward i In establishment of pence. His purpose was to compensate com-pensate "Mhose who in the previous year had been useful to humanity." human-ity." regardless of their nationality. It is said that the value r' each prize is $30,00(1. The priv.es have been awarded anu'ally since 11)01, when Pehring received Hie prize in medicine for his discovery of the diphtheria anti-toxin. Among the recipients of this prize are Paw-low. Paw-low. Koeh,-Laveran. Finsen, Ehrlieh, Mctehnikoff and Koehcv It has not been found practicable to follow to the letter the direction of the founder to give these prices for the most remarkable achiec-ir.ents achiec-ir.ents of the preceding year, this direction being interpreted to mean recent achievements. Previous to this year two Americans have received re-ceived prizes. A. A. Michelson ot the University of Chicago in physics and Theodore Roosevelt tor his efforts to establish peace between Japan and Russia. |