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Show Holy Grail Believed Found By Expedition in Palestine LONDON, June 20 Experts tonight believed the centuries long search for the Holy Grail, or chalice, used by Christ at the famous Last Supper, may have ended with its discovery south of Antioch, in the Holy land. A report was received by the Palestine Bible Lands exhibition here that the cup had been found by a party of archeologists excavating for ancient relics in Palestine. The dispatch said the excavations in a cave revealed a small case containing a glass chalice, which excavations in a cave revealed a small case containing a glass chalice, which experts described as displaying rare work. They dated it roughly from about 100 B.C. to 100 A.D. Experts believed the cup was the famous talisman of romance made famous in the tales of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. It was the object of the quest by the knights, and also became famed through the English translation of the French work, Quete del Saint Graal, in which it is the cup or chalice of the Last Supper. The blood which flowed from the wounds of the crucified Savior was caught in the grail. The word originally signified dish, however, and some versions indicate it was the dish on which the paschal lamb was served to Jesus. Women and Loveliness By Leslie Savage Women and loveliness are always kin. The homestead mother who could only spin A roughened cloth and dress in calico, Who longed for cobweb lace and silken bow, Did she not hold against her baby's skin, As petal soft a spray of jessamine? Did she not still her whirring wheel and hush His cry to hear the flute of hermit thrush And wind that seemed a muted violin? Women and loveliness are always kin. Georg Wirsung of Padua discovered and described the pancreatic duct in 1643 University of Erlangen, Germany Originally intended for Bayreuth, the University of Erlangen was established in 1743 by the transfer of the Academy of Bayreuth to Erlangen. Here it was opened the same year. In 1810 Erlangen became Bavarian. In 1823 to 24 its first hospital with medical and surgical departments was opened. Scientist Lindbergh Makes Heart, Lungs By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor NEW YORK, June 20 Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, turned scientist, has made an artificial heart and lungs at the Rockefeller institute, bringing to success a century long quest of medicine to cause whole parts of the body to live indefinitely and even grow in glass chambers, where they are placed and revived after surgical death. the announcement was made tonight in Science. Lindbergh teamed with Dr. Alexis Carrel, and signs the story with him. Dr. Carrel already has the Nobel prize for similar work in making tissues live under glass. But the new achievement has nothing to do with the old tissue culture, the announcement explains. Whole organs not only live but grow. They offer a new field of discovering the nature of disease and its cure, its internal cause directly visible under the scientists eyes. Twenty six times, the announcement states, the new Lindbergh pump has worked successfully. Spleens, hearts, kidneys, thyroids, ovaries and suprarenal glands were revived, lived indefinitely. They were taken from animals an hour after they had bled to death. For 123 years this has been attempted. Of late there had been some temporary success, the organs lived a while. But infection, which got into them in their artificial houses the same as in living bodies, cut their afterlife short. The Lindbergh pump solves this problem, being so mechanically perfect that no infection enters. The pump, an artificial heart and lungs combined, is not described. At the institute, information about it was refused with the statement that it will be divulged later in the institutes own publications. Its ultimate purposes, the announcement states, are manufacture in vitro of the secretions of endocrine glands, the isolation of substances essential to the growth, differentiation and functional activity of those glands, the discovery of the laws of associations of organs, the production in vitro and the treatment of organic and arterial diseases, etc. Describing some of the 26 experiments the authors state: Some organs were transferred several times from apparatus to apparatus. Infection occurred twice only. This accident took place in spleens that obviously were contaminated before removal from the abdomen. If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if twice, shame on me. PROVERB WARNERS CALENDAR OF MEDICAL HISTORY |