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Human Tissue Kept Alive After Removal

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 8, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 44.

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Human Tissue Kept Alive After Removal

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It is announced that a process has been discovered by Dr. Alexis Carrell, of Baltimore, by which parts of the human body, severed from the person, have been kept alive as long as three days after removal. The portions are nourished by culture material in somewhat the same way as disease germs, in sealed receptacles. In this medium they grow. We wait for fuller confirmation.