Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1931, Page 3

RARE PHENONENA SHONN PHYSGIANS Medical Men View Strange Physiological and Men- tal Experiments. (Continued From First Page.) any position in which they are placed, lw;ever uncomfortable. ‘WO years ago physicians at St. Eliz- abeth's began experimenting with a method reported from other hospitals by which catatonia victims were brought out of their stupors almost miraculously by the inhalation of a mixture of car- bon dioxide and oxygen, so that they became practically normal for from two minutes to half an hour. The patients would begin to talk and answer ques- tions rationally, It was like calling them back from the grave. But always they relapsed into the stupor again. Repeated treatments had the same ef- fect, but there was no permanent im- provement. Curative Suggestions Given. Until the St. Elizabeth's physicians went to work on the problem the longest recovery had been for a half hour. Repeated experiments resulted in a method of which the carbon- dioxide-oxygen inhalation in modified form remains the base. This is sup- lemented from the moment the patient geglm to talk as the mask is removed, by a psychic treatment closely akin to hypnotism, although technically dif- ferent. Curative suggestions are given by the physician and continued as long as there seems any hope of cure. In addition to this the patient is given in- Jections of typhoid vaccine, or some similar substance which will raise a fever, because of previous observations that dementia pracox patients seem somewhat benefitted when given the malaria treatment now used for the cure of another hitherto uncurable mental disease, paresis. Then, as the cure seems to be taking effect, is start- ed a program of re-education. Three patients, it was announced, have been able to leave the hospital, apparently normal. The longest re- covery has been out of the hospital for nearly two years, with no signs of a relapse. One woman, quite intelligent to start with, is supporting successfully three children and an older member of her family. The others appear to be making their way in the world success- Two Quick Changes Cited Startling changes were pictured by Dr. Karl Langenstrass, who_repol the treatment, almost from the moment the gas mask is removed. Thus a young man who had lain in a catatonic stupor for 10 years within a few minutes was reading, apparently intelligently, a newspaper telling of the latest happen- ings of the world from which he had been removed almost as far as if he had lain in his grave. A woman who for years had been in a stupor and kept alive by forced feeding shortly after the gas mask was removed was eating with evident enjoyment a good meal and shortly afterwards was help- ing feed another patient in the same sort of stupor from which she had just “emerged. ‘The time is too short and the patients too few, it was explained to claim & anent cure, but the indications are hat by a skiliful combination of physi- cal and psychic treatment a great step has been made toward the conquest of one of the most mysterious of all human diseases. The method, Dr. Langenstrass explained, also has in- volved a considerable change in the administering the ) ly § per cent of carbon dioxide which gradually is increased to 25 per cent. 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BEN the rescue ship Sagona cut its way through the ice flocs near Horse Island to pick up the survivors of the Viking disaster, the ship's doctor brought out his camera and the above picture shows what he got. Three | men are seen huddled pathetically on | the shattered timbers which oncs were the stern of the Viking, a distress flag flying above them. The figures were Henry G. Sargent of Boston, Clayton King, the wirel:ss operator, and William Kennedy, the navigator, who contracted | pneumonia of exposure and died after the rescue. They were surrounded by an ic: floe which stretched away to the horizon. The lower picture shows men on the rescue ship taking the survivors off the ice floe. —Copyright by the Assoclated Press. paralytic shock. On his face is a con- tinuous grin which every mnow and then is intensified into a chuckle re- gardless of the circumstances. He is ashamed of his disability. His face flushes. Tears roll down his face be- cause of his disability. But all the time that laugh-punctuated grin re- mains. When he wants to cry he laughs—because laughing is & function of the combined facial and respiratory muscles and his brain has no voluntary control over them. A woman has just died at the hos- pital, it was explained, who in the same way cried continuously, even when she ‘wanted to laugh. Crying is also & func- tion of the same muscles when under the control of the cerebral cortex. Superficial examination of the dead woman’s_brain has shown practically no pathological condition but it has not been dissected to uncover the nerve tracts. Another patient, once her fingers had been closed on Dr. Preeman’s hand, tried in vain to let go, although she obviously wanted to. He had to exert considerable strength to get his bhand free. Then he touched her with a piece of ice from which she drew away, in- dicating considerable discomfort. Then he placed it in her hand. “Does it feel good?” he asked. “Oh no, no, no,” said the woman. “Then drop it,” Dr. Freeman said. Couldn’t Drop Ice. But she couldn't. It was only after an intense effort, lasting at least a minute, that she finally could loosen | her grip. Somewhere in the path from | her mofor cortex, from which comes | the impulse for voluntary movements, and her fingers there is a lesion. No matter how much she wants to let go of anything it makes no difference. Three such patients were shown. All had & common characteristic in that the answer to any question was | delayed and finally came only after a long-drawn cry, described as an “ex- plosive effect.” Tt was very hard to get the motor cortex where one “wills” to talk and the muscles of the tongue| and larynx working in co-ordination. | Such cases, Dr. Freeman explained, may have a bearing on the prolonged | crying of infants who, once started, | can't stop easily although they may have nothing further to cry about be- caus: the tracts from the cortex to the throat and face muscles are imperfect- ly developed. The difference between | laughing and crying, he said, appears to be that in the former there is long in spiration and quick, explosive Tespir: tion, while in the Iatter the respiration is exactly the opposite. The respiratory muscles controlling these acts are asso- ciated closely with the facial muscles, | whose changes cause the characteristic | expressions of joy or sadness. | Living Organs Shown. At the Georgetown University physi- a kitt'n completely removed and freed 1l nerves and muscles yet still| al The Jongest it can be expected | to remain alive, according to Dr. J. Markowitz, professor of phy#iology, Who performed the marvelously delicat: sur- gical operation, is about 12 hours. It is given a new arterial blood transfusion every two hours, and kept at a temper: ture slightly greater than body tem- peratur<. The act of breathing, which | in the living kitten would be under nervous control, is duplicated by a | stream of compr:ssed air continuously | pumped into the lungs, but interrupted | ¢ a rotating machine, This keeps the heart going. continuously _pumping lood through th° organs. Essentially e act of breathing is duplicated, the rotating machine cutting across the stream of compressed air taking the | place of the breathing mechanism of the nervous system. ‘ By perfecting the technique of this| experiment Dr. Markowitz expects to| have a means of studying the effects of | various drugs on the viscera uncom- | plicated by the actions of the nerves| and muscles. Already he has made the | important discovery that that action of | an insulin injection into ti muscleless | “thing” results in a decrease of blood | sugar—thus learning that the action of this powerful drug is not altogether that | of increasing the demand of the mus- | Dsy. Dec. 2100_Eveniugs. Clev. 0619 CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT. G OF WASHINGTON 2111 Florida Avenue) ting for worship Pirst Day (Sunday) eleven o'clock. Pirst-dey school st 9:45. interested are welcome. ! cles for blood sugar and thus drawing - & ST it out of the blood. There is something | gi2¢ 2Us he blood sugar content. in the insulin itself which cuts down live or dead?” pgnnowu-l “Is this al was asked. L iy “It depends on what you want to call life,” he replied. “With no nervous connections whatever, of course, it has no consciousness, which fit usually meant when people speak of e.” But, he explained, mechanically it has all the attributes of a living thing. It b reathes and pumps blood. It does essentially everything which the heart, lungs and viscera do in maintaining the life process. Life and death mean something dif- ferent to the physiologist than to the layman. After all, Dr. Markowitz ex- lained, the question of starting the ife processes in a dead animal—liter- ally making it alive again—is only a matter of an arterial injection with the proper technique. But after about six_hours, he believes, this does not really mean the restoration of life be- cause the nervous system has been 5o | irreparably injured by the time spent | in death that the restored animal is only an automaton. Dog Given Two Hearts. ‘Then Dr. Wallace M. Yater, profes- sor of medicine at the Georgetown Medical School, administered ether to two dogs. In the neck of one he made an incision. From the other he re- moved the heart, ligating all the arteries except two. Then, rapidly and surely, he put the heart into the neck, plugged the pulmonary artery into the jugular veln and the aorta into an other artery, and the heart continued | to beat. Then the neck was sewed| up and a little later a living dog with | two hearts was expected to come out| of the ether. | One dog was shown upon whom a similar operation was performed. After | two days the heart in the neck still | was beating regularly, as well as the| animal's own heart. The transplanted | heart will continue to beat, but mor and more irregularly, for about four days. Then it will begin to disinte- grate, and will be removed from the animal who, in every way a normal| dog, will be kept in luxury for the rest of his life. The experiments along this line may | have far-reaching results in two direc- tions, it was explained. In the first place they demonstrate that an organ | of one animal cannot be kept alive long in the body of another. Every creature is an individual complex. But, Dr. Markowitz explained, it is entirely possible to remove a dog's kidney, transplant it to the neck of the same dog, and have it continue to function | perfectly as & normal kidney. Free From Nervous Control. Now the transplanted, beating heart is entirely free from nervous control. It is known that oversecretion from the thyroid gland causes an increase in the normal heart rate, but this effect is commonly believed to be brought about through the nervous system. _The Georgetown doctors want to know whether hyper-thyroidism, induced in | a dog by injections of thyroxin, will| have the same effect on the trans- PHILCO RADIO None Better— Few as Good Sold on Easy Terms GIBSON’S 915.19 G St. N.W. __HOTELS—NEW YORK. PENN POST HOTEL OPP. PENNSYLVANIA STATION important implications In the under- standing of a prevalent pathological condition. Carrying out this line requires per- fection of the transplanted heart can be kept beat- ing longer. It takes about four day: to bring about hyper-thyroidism—and by that time the transplanted heart stops beating anyway. Both these lines of experimentation, it was explained, are of vital import toward a clearer | Wednesday eveni understanding of the physiological processes upon which life and health | depend. Cancer, the increasing scourge of modern soclety, apparently was entirely absent from the American Indians. technique so that thz‘ Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonia) Institution, told the physicians. Ex. amining thousands of skeletons he has found no signs of the end effects of cancer in the bones. Also, he said, he found his first case of cancer among the thousands of Indians he has ex- amined only two years ago. The vast amount of skel available to the visitors. Clinics were held at Walter Reed, | Naval, Mount Alto, George Washington and Children’s Hospitals. PREACHES IN SPANISH Very Rev. Paschasius Heviz, O. ©. D, will deliver all sermons at a mission for Bpanish Catholics of Washington, to begin with services at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the chapel of the Perpetual Adoration Convent, 1419 V street northwest. The on will close ng. Father Heviz will deliver all the sermons in Spanish, and will celebrate & special mission mass each morning at 8:30 o'clock. A choir of you women from the Soclal Service School of the National Council of Catholic | conduct the musical | ‘Women will 0000000000000000000000000 1 material in the| $ National Museum, much of it illustrat- | ing pathological conditions, was made | Opening March 30th 9 - Rauscher’s - new location at 1345 Connecticut Avenue LIGHT LUNCHEONS CATERING PASTRIES 5 O’CLOCK TEAS ICES, ETC. Known more than ‘40 years for their excellence in every detail,,our new quarters will now provide for even higher standards in every way. Decatur 1170 ° OPPOSE REWOVAL OF PCKETT B0DY Custodians Threaten to Lock | Gates of Cemetery Against Grandson. (Continued From First Page.) | Arlington National Cemetery here, de- spite the last-minute permission granted by the guardians of Gen. Pickett's grave for the burial of the general's widow's ashes beside her husband in Hollywood, Lieut. Pickett will be a “trespasser” in the eyes of the guardians of Gen. Pickett's grave, if he passes the locked gates of Gettysburg Hill in an effort to get the remains of his grandfather. Mrs. Bauer stated the position of the Hollywood Ladies Memorial Associa- tion last night to a correspondent of ‘The Star in Richmond, in no uncertain terms and brought to an apparent im- passe the controversy that has arisen since*the widow of Gen. Pickett died here a few days ago and left a will di- recting that her body be buried in Gettysburg Hill beside her husband, despite a ruling made long before her death by the custodians of the Pickett burial ground that the plot shall be reserved only for Pickett and his men. Doubt Identification. Meanwhile, there are those in Rich- mond who believe Gen. Pickett's re- mains are indistinguishable from those of his men. They believe that even if the next of kin of Gen. Pickett carried out his announced intention of remov- ing the remains, he would not be as- sured of having Gen. Pickett's remains at all; that they might as well be digging up those of the lowliest private in the ranks that Pickett led at Gettysburg. Yesterday afternoon Lieut. Pickett, after many exchanges of wires with agents of the Hollywood Ladies Memo- rial Association, decided upon removal of his grandfather's body. He an- nounced that no action of the guardians of his grandfather’s grave could deter him from his resolve to bring Gen. Pickett's remains to Arlington. Young Pickett plans to bury the body near that of Gen. James Longstreet, another Gettysburg hero, in the Con- federate circle. The controversy started when, upon reading his grandmother’s will several days ago, Lieut. Pickett discovered that she requested her ashes be buried beside the remains of her husband on Gettys- bu;lg HUL 1 le communicated with the Hollywood Ladies’ Memorial Association, which in 1891 was given confrol of the section where Pickett and his men lie, by the cemetery owners. He was informed that there was an inviolable rule that only members of the command of Gen. Pickett could be buried with the gen- eral. No women could be buried in that section, they announced, and to allow the ashes of Mrs. Pickett to be buried there would establish a precedent that | might embarass the custodians of the | burial plot in the future. Refused Offer of Plot. The Junior Hollywood Memorial As- sociation shortly afterward agreed to help Lieut. Pickett to carry out the terms of his grandmother's will by pro- viding a plot in the officers’ section of the cemetery for Gen. and Mrs. Pickett. | This was refused by Lieut. Pickett, and after consulting other members of his family. he decided to go ahead with plans for the burial of both Gen. and Mrs. Pickett in Arlington. Mrs. Bauer said last that she and the other members of the Hollywood Ladies’ BAY STATE 100% Pt ad and Covers more surface and lasts longer BAY STATE Special Red Roof Paint. $1.50 Gallon BAY STATE IN-OR-OUT ENAMEL Dri four hours Twenty-seven Beautiful Colors and Black and White Expert Paint Advice Free UTH Memorial Association are now willing Mrs. Pickett's ashes to be placed beneath the huge monument that marks Gen. Pickett’s grave. Her offer was made in the muwmc&megnm to Lieut. Pickett: “At a led meeting of Hollywood ception in the case of Mrs. Pickett to the rule concerning the interment of civilians in the soldiers’ section. “The association will be to pro- vide a place by the side of Gen. Pickett for the interment of his venerable widow's remains and we shall esteem it an honor to co-operate in a suitable interment.” Some time later Mrs. Bauer an- nounced she had received no reply from Lieut. Pickett. Gen. Pickett, first buried in Norfolk August 2, 1875, was brought to Rich- mond and reburied in Hollywood among the veterans of his brigade October 24, 1875. Thirteen years later the pres- ent monument to Pickett and his men ‘was erected over their graves on Gettys- burg Hill. The presence of the big granite pile over the grave, the burial close by of 50 many other soldiers and the 44 years that have elapsed since the second burial. have aroused doubt that Gen. Pickett's body can be re- covered for a third interment. The ap- proximate location is not known. It is su to be directly beneath the great stone monument. Complicated Dispute. Uncertainty as to the location first complicated the correspondence be- tween the Pickett family and the Holly- wood Memorial Association. When the family first made known the desire of Gen. Pickett's widow to be buried with him the cemetery company referred the matter to the Hollywood Memorial As- soclation. The Memorial Association could find no record of Gen. Pickett's burial in the soldlers’ section for which they were responsible, and so concluded they had no jurisdiction in granting the request. ‘They discovered after Mrs. Pickett's death what was common tradition in Richmond—that the hero of Gettysburg lay buried not in the cemetery proper, but among the ranks of his men, beneath the monument. ‘They then announced the rules gov- erning the soldiers’ section did not permit the burial of any save Confed- erate soldiers. ‘The people of Richmond, horrified at the tragedy of errors, are sympathetic with Lieut. Pickett's views, but are dis- tressed body disturbed and foresee a painful to remove the big memorial identify the remains. and Castelberg face=~50¢c a 710 13th St. N. W, 1719 Conn. Ave. Easter remembrances More than a gift—an occasion to perpetuate that priceless thought in the hearts of revered ones— Remembrance. A. 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