Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2294

ALEXIS CARREL (1873-1944) The culture of organs. Hoeber 1938 xix [3] 221 pp., illus., diagrs. 23.4 cm.

Carrel studied medicine at Lyons and after graduation taught anatomy and operative surgery and did experimental work in surgery at the University. He came to Chicago in 1904 and in 1906 accepted a position at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York. In 1908 he successfully transplanted organs, and, in 1910, Carrel demonstrated that blood vessels could be kept in cold storage for long periods of time before transplanting them. In 1912 he won the Nobel prize for his work on vascular structure and organ transplantation. In this book, the authors describe the techniques employed in the cultivation of whole organs placed in an organ chamber apparatus developed by Lindbergh, the American aviator.

Cited references: Cushing C99; Waller 1785