Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes home to bed. His rolled-up left sleeve discloses two plastic tubes permanently implanted in his forearm, one set in a vein, the other in an artery. Their outside ends are connected so that blood flows freely through them. A physician from Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital takes the lawyer's blood pressure. In his bedroom, near the bathroom, is a waist-high tank of stainless steel equipped with an electric motor and pump, an array of tubes, and a hose that is hooked onto the bathroom faucet...
Meanwhile, a nurse from the Brigham has put sterile coils in the tank's bath of dialysate (filtering solution) and added chemicals. She uses about l½ pints of the lawyer's blood, stored from the last treatment, to prime the coil. Then she connects a thin hose from the artificial kidney to the artery tube in his arm. He bleeds a little to finish the priming and the nurse hooks another hose to his vein tube. That completes the liquid circuit, and she switches on the machine. When all is going well, the doctor leaves...
Time for Homework. Dr. John P. Merrill, head of the Brigham's cardiorenal section, says in the A.M.A. Journal that he sees no need for a physician to be in constant attendance, provided he is within reach by telephone. He thinks wives can be trained to take the nurse's place, and in two cases involving Brigham patients, they have already begun...
Utah: Democrat Frank E. Moss, 53, squeaked into the Senate with 38.7% of the vote in 1958 because two Republican opponents split the vote against him. This year he faces only one Republican, former Brigham Young University President Ernest L. Wilkinson, 65, whose conservatism packs potent appeal. The race is tight, but Lyndon will probably carry Moss back for a second term...
...Brigham Young University in Utah, Globetrotter Lowell Thomas took for his theme the merits of skiing; at the University of Delaware, Ralph W. Tyler, Stanford Behavioral Scientist, warned students against "outdoor sports and other leisure pursuits which provide self-gratification but have little constructive value to society." Poverty Planner Sargent Shriver called on Boston College and Wesleyan University seniors to aid the economically poor; University of Chicago Chancellor George Beadle urged his own graduates to help reduce "cultural poverty"; Senate Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey said, at the University of Massachusetts, that those who really need help are people who suffer...