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...short periods, but no machine yet devised can substitute for the organ, and the livers of pigs and calves have proved inadequate to the task of cleansing human blood. Now it appears that in a liver coma crisis, man's best friend may be the dog-faced baboon...
Researchers and surgeons tried pumping human blood through baboon livers as early as 1965. Since then, Virginia Commonwealth University's Dr. David Hume and a team of colleagues headed by the Medical College of Georgia's Dr. George Abouna have refined the technique. Their findings, reported in the British Medical Journal, offer new hope for many victims of liver failure...
...Abouna group's first two patients were suffering from fulminating viral hepatitis, which had completely shut down their liver function. Death was only hours away when Abouna resorted to the use of baboons. The animals were given fatal doses of anesthesia. Their excised livers were then washed in order to remove, as much as possible, the proteins that might trigger a reaction in the patient. Finally, the patients' circulatory systems were hooked up to the blood vessels of the isolated livers, which rested at bedside in stainless steel chambers. While the patients' blood circulated through the baboon...
...Marrow. The degradation of language parallels the decay of power and majesty. One workman, Glendenning (Tom Alkins), is a tongue-knotted baboon who cannot put his feet, let alone his words, where he wants to. With this handful of human rubble -stuttering, stumbling, abject-Storey evokes the race that gave the world the speech of Shakespeare, the King James Bible and Churchill...
...naked figures, faces obscenely eroded by electric-blue shadows, sprawl on a bed. A man huddles like a baboon on the edge of what might be a swing, a coffee table or a hangman's drop. A Pope howls silently behind glass...