Exercise 2

The idea of tissue therapy grew out of clinical and experimental investigations of problems connected with transplanting the cornea. Before Filatov it was believed that in order to transplant the cornea successfully, the fresh of a living person had to be used. As for tissue taken from a corpse, doctors conceded that it was possible to use it only if it was removed from the eye of the deceased immediately after death. Filatov does just the opposite: he takes tissue from corpses, but is in no hurry to graft it to the eye of his patient. He first keeps the tissue for several days in a cold place. Deprived of their sources of nutrition, the cooled tissue cells make a last effort to prolong their life and produce substances that increase the tissue’s power of endurance tremendously. These substances produces by living tissue on the verge of death Academician Filatov calls “biogenic stimulators”.

Biogenic stimulators may be obtained from wide variety of sources .In addition to animal and plant tissue , Academician Filatov obtain tissue therapy preparation from medical mud , silt from fresh –water lakes and other material containing the remain of animal or plant organism , which perished in the fight for their existence under unfavorable conditions. It has likewise been established that biogenic stimulators are also produced in the human organism in cases of injury ,under the action of ultra-violet or X-rays ,during muscular fatigue and certain illnesses . Biogenic stimulators are exceedingly stable.

Exercise 3

The founder of tissue therapy method is the famous scientist, Academician Vladimir Petrovich Filatov.

As it has penetrated ever deeper into the secrets of nature, science has brought to light remarkable processes which take place in the living organism on the borderline between life and death.

Investigation of these processes has produced a new method of treatment by tissue preparations, which offers wide possibilities to medical practice.

Filatov does just the opposite: he takes tissue from corpses, but is in no hurry to graft it to the eye of his patient. He first keeps the tissue for several days in a cold place.

Deprived of their sources of nutrition, the cooled tissue cells make a last effort to prolong their life and produce substances that increase the tissue’s power of endurance tremendously. These substances produces by living tissue on the verge of death Academician Filatov calls “biogenic stimulators”. The author of the theory of biogenic stimulators asserts that “appearance of biogenic stimulators under the influence of unfavorable factors of environment is a law of living nature in general. Biogenic stimulators are produced wherever there is a stuggle for life”.

In order to produce biogenic stimulators in animal tissue the latter is cooled, but not too much, so that it should retain its ability to fight for existence and not perish.

The doctrine of biogenic stimulators created by science has proved of immense value not only for medicine, but also for agriculture.