Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old accountant was dying of longstanding kidney disease when he went into Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in January of 1962. Doctors used heroic measures, but it looked like a losing battle. Then another Brigham patient died after a heart operation. The hospital's famous team of kidney-transplant pioneers (TIME, May 3) rushed into action...
...accountant had a stormy course for almost a year. He had received no X rays or chemicals in advance to suppress the body's tendency to reject a graft from anyone other than an identical twin. For this job the Brigham doctors had decided to rely on drugs, and they used a battery of the most potent available: azathioprine (a new immunity suppressor), actinomycin C (an antibiotic used against some cancers), a cortisone-type hormone, heart stimulants, diuretics and even bicarbonate of soda. Time and again, the transplanted kidney began to fail as his body tried...
Later, surgeons removed the accountant's own diseased kidneys. He still has to take four medicines daily and he has regular blood-cell transfusions. But 16 months after the transplant he is working full time. The Brigham doctors draw no conclusions. They simply note that this is the longest survival for a kidney transplanted from a dead donor to an unrelated patient...
During the long and uncertain trek westward over the plains in 1847, Brigham Young's Mormon pioneers obeyed this admonition, never beginning a day without a song or meeting the night without a hymn of thanks. So ingrained did the joyful habit of singing become that Young founded a choir at journey's end. This week the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, having long since won world renown, starts its 35th year of radio broadcasting-the longest sustained network program in history...
...Asper, the choir, nicknamed "the singing Saints," has a weight and body unexcelled in choral sound. But "we have not let this become a canned thing," says Director Condie, and he often explores more dissonant modern music. Still, his favorite is a hymn written by one who went with Brigham Young's wagon train, William Clayton, while the prairie winds blew about...