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Barium X rays had shown that the girls, joined for 5 in. down the middle of their chests and abdomens, had separate digestive tracts. Radiopaque dyes, injected into the bloodstream, had shown that each had two kidneys, and separate bile ducts. But blood was crossing the bridge between the twins. The important question: How much? Injected radioactive iodine 131 gave the answer through a scintillation counter: a forbidding 43%. The big remaining question was whether there were normal and separate blood-vessel connections to the liver. By operation's eve the twins were amazingly healthy, with no indication...
...three years poring over the records of 10,000 patients who had severe infections at the time of death in Boston City Hospital. The researchers covered 24 years, beginning with 1935, to get data before the first sulfa changed the picture (1937). Deaths caused by bacterial infections in the bloodstream dropped steadily until 1947, they found. Since then, the rate has stayed low or dropped further for deaths caused by pneumococci and the dreaded streptococci-the organisms most vulnerable to sulfas and antibiotics. But in these twelve years there has been an absolute increase in deaths from other bacteria...
...expensive and can be dangerous. Then there was the economy: one-hundredth of the injection dose. Perhaps most important: live virus taken by mouth multiplies in the digestive tract, quickly triggers development of antibodies and protects the whole system. The Russians argue that the killed form, injected into the bloodstream, safeguards only the nervous system (against paralysis...
Chief advantages claimed for the Convair heart: its gentle hydraulic action is less damaging to the blood; its flowmeter is in the water system, not in the bloodstream itself, further reducing damage; by ingenious servomechanisms it provides automatic control of oxygenation and acidity; it can handle up to two gallons of blood a minute, against five quarts for present models. It needs only two men to tend it. If the power fails, it keeps running. If water pressure fails, it can be cranked by hand...
...fight, attempted three times the next day to get a marriage license and was rebuffed. "She isn't really a Japanese," he protested to the marriage clerk. "She was born in the United States." Replied Clerk Viola Given: "It isn't where you were born, but your bloodstream that counts." The couple re-registered for separate rooms at the hotel. On the third day U.S. District Judge Taylor Wines, on a petition filed by Bridges, gave his ruling: "The right to marry is the right of the individual, not the race . . . If we are to take the proposition...