Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been going on spiritedly for 40 years. The Tribune, established in 1870 by bitter Mormon dissidents, was winning; its virulent assaults on church practices and its vicious lampoons of Mormon leaders attracted even church members, who sneaked copies on the sly. The Deseret News, founded in 1850 by Brigham Young himself, was staggering beneath the burden of must-run church news and saintly strictures that were its daily...
...JEAN BRIGHAM...
Medical scientists this week reported a major advance toward one of their most cherished goals: the ability to replace diseased or worn-out human organs. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of doctors from Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital described the first successful attempt to graft a man with a kidney from somebody other than an identical twin. The patient is alive and healthy after 18 months-long enough to suggest that he has a chance of living a near-normal life. Led by Dr. John P. Merrill, the doctors succeeded by subjecting...
...another individualn.* In experiments with dogs, and in the few attempts on humans, this "rejection reaction" has invariably killed the graft. Only in the case of identical twins, who are in effect the same person biochemically, have grafts of skin or organs been completely successful. Since 1954 the Harvard-Brigham team has performed eleven successful kidney transplants between identical twins. But in 17 other cases where they tried to get the same result outside the identical-twin relationship, the transplanted kidney was rejected, and the patient died. That was until John Riteris came along...
Mary Richardson, 32, wife of a Jacksonville truck driver, had blackouts for years before she went to Boston's famed Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1958. Doctors found that she had, in severe form, a two-pronged heart defect: because of hardening and scarring (perhaps from rheumatic fever), the aortic valve does not open wide enough to let out a full supply of blood, and at the same time it does not close tight enough to keep blood from sloshing back into the heart and adding to its work load...