Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congratulating the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at its 50th anniversary celebration dinner last night, Dean George P. Berry of the Medical School praised the Harvard teaching hospital for combining "compassion and concern for its patients" with "ruthless demands for cold logic" in its scientific research...
...George W. Thorn, the Brigham's physician in chief, and Surgeon Carl W. Walter modified Kolff's early model, which he had built in secret during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands; and for patients whose kidney failure was only temporary, the contraption was a lifesaver. But it could not keep alive those whose kidneys had failed permanently. In 1951, in a desperate effort to save these patients, Brigham surgeons decided to go ahead and transplant kidneys without waiting for the mysteries of immunity to be dispelled. But all those "unprotected"' transplants eventually failed...
...doctor phoned the Brigham from Northboro, Mass., and begged Dr. John P. Merrill to put Richard Herrick, 24, back on the artificial kidney because both of his own kidneys were failing catastrophically. As he was about to hang up, the Northboro doctor added: "By the way, this patient has an identical twin." Physician Merrill immediately
...effort to stave off the immune reaction, Brigham surgeons have done ten transplants after irradiating the recipients' whole body. But only one nonidentical twin survives. Now Surgeon Joseph E. Murray and his colleagues are relying on drugs alone to suppress the immune reaction, and all of their last four patients who received transplants are still living. So is one of an earlier group whose operation is now a year old. His kidney came from a cadaver...
What he needed was a new kidney; doctors at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital who have pioneered with transplanted kidneys since 1950, decided to try and give him one. First they needed a healthy volunteer to donate a kidney. They found one-a woman. Then they got down to one of the most hazardous tasks of modern surgery, that of transplanting a living organ from donor to host...