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Show HUNGER TESTING KUCHINESHOWN Scientists Determine If Patient Suffers From Hunger or Appetite. Philadelphia. Dec. 31. An appara tul by which blood may be removed, cleansed t impurity and returned to the system, and a contrivance by which It can be determined whether one is suffering from hunger or merely mere-ly ha? an appetite were among the Inventions In-ventions demonstrated yesterday by members of the Federation of American Ameri-can Cocleties for exierlmental biology bio-logy in annual session here. A dog was utilized to Illustrate the blood purifying apparatus which was the result of the work of Drs. J. J. Abel, L G. Rowntree and B. B. Turner Turn-er of John Hopkins University. Dr. A. J. Carlson of the University of Chicago demonstrated on himself the efficiency of the hunger testing machine ma-chine was his own invention. Dr. Carlson defined hunger as a sensation which arises in the stomach sto-mach while appetite he explained, is a nervous phenomena of the brain. Swallowing a small cigar shaped rubber, rub-ber, to which had been attached B Ion.; rubber tube, he Inflated the balloon bal-loon in his stomach through the tubes and then attached the latter to sensitized sen-sitized paper Hunger, lie declared caused the muscles of the stomach to grip the baloon and drive out the air which registered the amount of hunger on the sensitized paper. White rats and mice were measured meas-ured in an experiment designed to Illustrate Il-lustrate the diffusion of the blood supply Dyes injected into their blood vessels circulated in a short time until the little animals changed the color of their flesh without much apparent discomfort. One rat was green to the end of his tall, while even the film of his ees was the color of an emerald. The other was similarly transformed by the use of red dye. |