Arthur B. Reeve

Name: The Stolen War Secret — XIV. The Artificial Kidney
Author: Arthur B. Reeve

The Stolen War Secret — XIV. The Artificial Kidney (1914)

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“The Stolen War Secret — XIV. The Artificial Kidney”, published in 1914, is a work by Arthur B. Reeve. It explores elements such as Leslie, Kennedy and salt solution.

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — XIV. The Artificial Kidney (1914)

“ Leslie released the clamp which held the artery just above where it had been severed, the still wildly beating heart of Señora Ruiz seemed to spurt the arterial blood from the carotid into the tubes which held the normal salt solution now at blood heat.
It was astounding to see the human body working almost with the same precision as a machine. That arterial pressure, in turn, pumped the salt solution which filled the tubes, into the jugular vein. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — XIV. The Artificial Kidney (1914)

“ It is an important property—without it life such as we know it would be impossible. These tubes, which perhaps you have thought were made of glass, are really made of a porous substance known as celloidin.”
“Then you mean to say that the poison in her blood,” I exclaimed, “is passing slowly through those celloidin walls into that salt solution which surrounds the tubes?”
“Precisely,” he returned. “Any substance, any poison that is dialyzable is diffused into the surrounding salt solution and the blood is passed back into the body, with no air in it, no infection, no further alteration. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — XIV. The Artificial Kidney (1914)

“ Hawley.
“I hope she lives,” she breathed fervently. “Whatever her faults, I always rather liked the Señora.”
“Yes,” put in Sinclair, “there have been tragedies enough in this unfortunate affair.”
Burke shook his head doubtfully.
“They are a violent people,” he remarked. “They don’t seem to value human life any more than if they were so many head of cattle.”
As for me, I was unable to take my mind off the process that was going on before us. Kennedy was actually cleaning the blood of the gay little dancer and then putting it back again—getting rid of an elusive, subtle, fatal poison. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — XIV. The Artificial Kidney (1914)

“ And it is precisely those elements that we want to reach. Yet by these delicate adjustments doctors can remove and discover any desired substance in the blood that is capable of elimination at all, in such a way.”
“I see,” agreed Sinclair. “It does in a way just the work that the kidneys do in elimination.”
Kennedy nodded.
“In fact this little apparatus, with its one hundred and ninety-two tubes,” he added, “has been found in practise to compare favorably with the kidneys themselves in removing even a deadly dose of poison. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — XIV. The Artificial Kidney (1914)

“ And thus the minutes lengthened into hours as the blood of the poisoned Señora Ruiz coursed through its artificial channels, literally being washed free of the toxin.
Would it succeed? Would vividiffusion bring back the unfortunate woman, even long enough for her to yield her secret and enable us to catch the real criminal? What if she died? ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — XIV. The Artificial Kidney (1914)

“ Incredible as it seemed, we could not but believe, for there was the apparatus before us working, apparently, as smoothly as a watch.
“It is a system devised recently by several very noted doctors at Johns Hopkins,” corroborated Leslie in a manner which showed that as a physician he would not have missed the opportunity of seeing the thing for thousands of dollars.
“Yes,” continued Kennedy, “when there is a toxin or poison in the blood, the kidneys naturally endeavor to eliminate it. But often, as in this case, an emergency arises and it is eliminated too slowly. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — XIV. The Artificial Kidney (1914)

“ In that way, you see, we keep the blood and salt solution in balance, as it were, and nothing happens in regard to such substances.”
“And of course,” cut in Leslie, “all substances in the blood are not capable of diffusion, you know.”
“Oh, of course,” agreed Kennedy. “The colloidal substances, for instance, would not pass out by osmosis anyhow. It is only the crystallizable elements which are capable of diffusion. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — XIV. The Artificial Kidney (1914)

“ You know that if substances of a certain kind are placed in solution next to each other and separated only by a thin porous membrane, there will take place and interchange of the molecules or ions of the one substance with those of the other until the two liquids are completely mixed. ”

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