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Across the street in Charity Hospital, other surgeons made an incision in Davis' right flank. They implanted the chimp's ureters in Davis' bladder, and made artery and vein connections. Within ten minutes after the hookup, Adam's kidneys began to purify Davis' blood and produce urine...
...less ingenious are "autotrans-plants" of a patient's organs to a different part of his own body. Kidneys have been thus transplanted at the University of Mississippi Medical Center so that they might continue working although the tube that connected them to the bladder had been damaged by disease or injury. Parts of the adrenal glands that bestride the kidneys have been moved to the thigh to facilitate continued treatment without repeated major operations...
...spreads from the Congo's Katanga province into both Portuguese Angola and Northern Rhodesia. The Lunda's most illustrious son is Katanga's secessionist leader Moise Tshombe, who married a daughter of Mwata Yambo XXIV. When his father-in-law died last June of a burst bladder, Tshombe for a time was considered as successor. But the tribal elders, suspecting that Moise might sell them out to the white man, finally settled on a minor chieftain (original name: Gaston Mushidi), who was invested in impressive rites that raised him to the status...
Wilkins stands in direct contrast to such demagogic types. The 14-hour days he normally puts in at his job are severely straining his strength. He survived surgery for stomach cancer in 1946, but he has a serious gall-bladder ailment that keeps him off the cigars and social drinking he used to enjoy. It does not, however, keep him out of his ivory Triumph sports car, which he loves to drive along parkways near the apartment he shares with his St. Louis-born wife Minnie in an integrated neighborhood in Queens...
...bloodstream. Then they settle down to years devoted to depositing eggs in vital organs. The adult parasites live in an almost constant state of copulation and the female can produce up to 3,000 eggs a day for as long as 30 years. Once the eggs enter the bladder and intestines, they are passed out of the body and, in areas of primitive sewage disposal, they reach fresh water, hatch and start a new cycle...