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Carrel in 1912Alexis Carrel ( French:; 28 June 1873 – 5 November 1944) was a surgeon and biologist who was awarded the in 1912 for pioneering vascular techniques. He invented the first with opening the way to. His positive description of an allegedly miraculous healing witnessed during a pilgrimage earned him scorn of some of his colleagues.
This prompted him to relocate to the United States, where he lived most of his life. He had a leading role in implementing policies in.A laureate in 1912, Alexis Carrel was also elected twice, in 1924 and 1927, as an honorary member of the. Contents.Biography Born in, Carrel was raised in a devout Catholic family and was educated by, though he had become an agnostic by the time he became a university student. He was a pioneer in. Alexis Carrel was also a member of in the U.S., Spain, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vatican City, Germany, Italy and Greece and received honorary doctorates from, California, New York, and.In 1902, he was claimed to have witnessed the miraculous cure of Marie Bailly at, made famous in part because she named Carrel as a witness of her cure. After the notoriety surrounding the event, Carrel could not obtain a hospital appointment because of the pervasive anticlericalism in the French university system at the time. In 1903 he emigrated to Montreal, Canada, but soon relocated to Chicago, Illinois, to work for Hull Laboratory.
While there he collaborated with American physician in work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs as well as the, and Carrel was awarded the 1912 for these efforts.In 1906 he joined the newly formed in New York where he spent the rest of his career. There he did significant work on tissue cultures with pathologist. In the 1930s, Carrel and became close friends not only because of the years they worked together but also because they shared personal, political, and social views. Lindbergh initially sought out Carrel to see if his sister-in-law's heart, damaged by, could be repaired.
When Lindbergh saw the crudeness of Carrel's machinery, he offered to build new equipment for the scientist. Eventually they built the first perfusion pump, an invention instrumental to the development of organ transplantation and open heart surgery. Lindbergh considered Carrel his closest friend, and said he would preserve and promote Carrel's ideals after his death.Due to his close proximity with 's fascist (PPF) during the 1930s and his role in implementing eugenics policies during Vichy France, he was accused after the Liberation of collaboration, but died before the trial.In his later life he returned to his Catholic roots. In 1939 he met with Alexis Presse on a recommendation. Although Carrel was skeptical about meeting with a priest, Presse ended up having a profound influence on the rest of Carrel's life. In 1942, he said 'I believe in the existence of God, in the immortality of the soul, in Revelation and in all the Catholic Church teaches.' He summoned Presse to administer the Catholic on his death bed in November 1944.For much of his life, Carrel and his wife spent their summers on the , which they owned.
After he and Lindbergh became close friends, Carrel persuaded him to also buy a neighboring island, the, where the Lindberghs often resided in the late 1930s. Contributions to science Vascular suture Carrel was a young surgeon in 1894, when the French president was assassinated with a knife. Carnot bled to death due to severing of his portal vein, and surgeons who treated the president felt that the vein could not be successfully reconnected. This left a deep impression on Carrel, and he set about developing new techniques for suturing blood vessels.
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The technique of 'triangulation', using three stay-sutures as traction points in order to minimize damage to the vascular wall during suturing, was inspired by sewing lessons he took from an embroideress and is still used today. Julius Comroe wrote: 'Between 1901 and 1910, Alexis Carrel, using experimental animals, performed every feat and developed every technique known to vascular surgery today.' He had great success in reconnecting arteries and veins, and performing surgical grafts, and this led to his Nobel Prize in 1912. Wound antisepsis During (1914–1918), Carrel and the English chemist developed the Carrel–Dakin method of treating wounds based on chlorine (Dakin's solution) which, preceding the development of, was a major medical advance in the care of traumatic wounds. For this, Carrel was awarded the.
Carrel also advocated the use of wound debridement (cutting away necrotic or otherwise damaged tissue) and irrigation of wounds. His method of wound irrigation involved flushing the tissues with a high volume of antiseptic fluid so that dirt and other contaminants would be washed away (this is known today as 'mechanical irrigation.' )Organ transplants Carrel co-authored a book with famed pilot, The Culture of Organs, and worked with Lindbergh in the mid-1930s to create the 'perfusion pump,' which allowed living organs to exist outside the body during surgery. The advance is said to have been a crucial step in the development of and, and to have laid the groundwork for the, which became a reality decades later.
Some critics of Lindbergh claimed that Carrel overstated Lindbergh's role to gain media attention, but other sources say Lindbergh played an important role in developing the device. Both Lindbergh and Carrel appeared on the cover of on June 13, 1938.Cellular senescence Carrel was also interested in the phenomenon of, or aging. He claimed that all cells continued to grow indefinitely, and this became a dominant view in the early 20th century. Carrel started an experiment on January 17, 1912, where he placed tissue cultured from an chicken heart in a stoppered flask of his own design. He maintained the living culture for over 20 years with regular supplies of nutrient. This was longer than a chicken's normal lifespan.
The experiment, which was conducted at the, attracted considerable popular and scientific attention.Carrel's experiment by some was never successfully replicated, and in the 1960s and proposed that can undergo only a limited number of divisions before dying. This is known as the, and is now a pillar of biology.L. Hayflick has shown that a cell has a limited number of divisions, equal to the so called 'Hayflick's Limit.'
Franks and others (Loo et al. 1987; Nooden and Tompson 1995; Frolkis 1988a), have shown that the number of cell divisions can be considerably greater than that stipulated by the 'Hayflick Limit', having practically no limit at all.It is not certain how Carrel obtained his anomalous results. Suggests that the daily feeding of nutrient was continually introducing new living cells to the alleged immortal culture. Witkowski has argued that, while 'immortal' strains of visibly mutated cells have been obtained by other experimenters, a more likely explanation is deliberate introduction of new cells into the culture, possibly without Carrel's knowledge.
Honors In 1972, the Swedish Post Office honored Carrel with a stamp that was part of its Nobel stamp series. In 1979, the was named after him as a tribute to his scientific breakthroughs.In February 2002, as part of celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's birth, the Medical University of South Carolina at Charleston established the Lindbergh-Carrel Prize, given to major contributors to 'development of perfusion and bioreactor technologies for organ preservation and growth'. And nine other scientists received the prize, a bronze statuette created for the event by the Italian artist C. Zoli and named 'Elisabeth' after Elisabeth Morrow, sister of Lindbergh's wife Anne Morrow, who died from heart disease. It was in fact Lindbergh's disappointment that contemporary medical technology could not provide an artificial heart pump which would allow for heart surgery on her that led to Lindbergh's first contact with Carrel.Alexis Carrel and Lourdes In 1902 Alexis Carrel went from being a skeptic of the visions and miracles reported at to being a believer in spiritual cures after experiencing a healing of Marie Bailly that he could not explain. The Catholic journal Le nouvelliste reported that she named him as the prime witness of her cure. Alexis Carrel refused to discount a supernatural explanation and steadfastly reiterated his beliefs, even writing the book describing his experience, although it was not published until four years after his death.
This was a detriment to his career and reputation among his fellow doctors, and feeling he had no future in academic medicine in France, he emigrated to Canada with the intention of farming and raising cattle. After a brief period, he accepted an appointment at the University of Chicago and two years later at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research.Man, the Unknown (1935, 1939). Witkowski explanation is actually based on the account of a visiting medical researcher, Ralph Buchbaum, who reports being told by a technician in Carrel's lab 'Dr. Carrel would be so upset if we lost the strain, we just add a few embryo cells now and then'.
After the first six months, Carrel's colleague Albert Ebeling had actually taken charge of the cultures and published several papers about their development, until they were eventually discarded in 1946. Witkowski, in 'Dr. Carrel's immortal cells', op. Cit., quotes Buchbaum's account. At the end Buchbaum writes that 'I told this story, of my visit to Carrel's laboratory, to various people.
Bloom ( Buchbaum's director of research in Chicago)refused to believe it. Others chuckled gleefully. Carrel was to blame only in that he did not keep on top of what was really going on in the laboratory (mostly, he wrote the papers). Parker and Dr. Ebeling probably suspected something, hence the 'retirement'. In the interest of truth and science, the incident should have been thoroughly investigated. If it had been, some heads might have rolled, sacrificed to devotion to a wrong hypothesis - immortality of cell strains.'
Witkowski also reports Dr. Margaret Murray, an early tissue culturist, telling him that 'one of Carrel's technicians of that time was passionately anti-fascist and detested Carrel's political and social ideas' and expressing her belief that 'this technician would willingly have discredited Carrel scientifically if possible.' References.
Learn how and when to remove these template messages.Citizens had defined civil rights under the Soviet Constitution ofbut these rights could be ignored “according to interests of workers”. According to Aron, this Soviet Constitution had no value because the real power belonged to the Communist Party. No trivia or quizzes yet.Critic Roger Kimball2 suggests that Opium dmocrwtie “a seminal book of the twentieth century. According to Bolshevist theory, the October Revolution became a symbol of a victory of the world proletariat.Piriou marked it as to-read Jan 28, Want to Read saving. Sarah Salerno marked it as to-read Nov 06, This article includes a list of referencesrelated reading or external linksbut its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations.In this regard Aron quotes Khrushchev writing that at a meeting with Stalin, Khrushchev knew never whether Stalin wanted to consult him or arrest him.
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