Progressive Opinion | 1944-01-28 | Page 2 | Human Parts on Hand

Human Parts on Hand For use in mending injured human hu-man bodies, physicians of tomorrow tomor-row may carry a stock of "replaceable "re-placeable parts" on hand, including includ-ing bones, tendons, and nerves of varying sizes. Dr. Paul Weiss, of the University of Chicago, developed devel-oped an animal nerve "bank" and has, by a special technique, successfully suc-cessfully grafted "cold storage" nerves into rats, cats, and monkeys. mon-keys. Nerves are prepared for storage in much the same way as blood is prepared for blood ' "banks" by freezing and drying in a vacuum. Parts for human nerve banks would be taken from cadavers or from arms and legs which are amputated