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...Alexander Brunschwig of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital has literally disemboweled hundreds of patients during the past 17 years. In almost every case, the list of organs he has removed would seem to be a surely lethal loss. But Brunschwig's viscerations - or pelvic exenterations, as surgeons prefer to call the incredibly drastic operations -have been a startlingly successful effort to save lives after all hope was gone...
Other included: Kirkland, Bowman Cutter, Alfred Guzetti, John Henn, Frederic Kellogg, Leo Mullin; Leverett, Keith Julian, Ronald Cohen, Michael Reiss, Donald Stern, Earl Leiken; Lowell, David Brandling-Bennet, Charles Bolton, Eugene Kinasewich, Marshall Moriarity, Richard Seymour; Quincy, Duncan Kennedy, Robert Kudrle, Fernand Brunschwig, R. Gilbert Jost, Victor Niederhoffer; Winthrop, Max Byrd, Bruce Paisner, William Grana, Grief Raggio, Robert Benson...
Memorial has no secret cures for cancer. Its staff has comparatively few world-renowned cancer fighters (one of the few: Surgeon Alexander Brunschwig, formerly of the University of Chicago (TIME, March 17). But its able, well-coordinated team is waging a hard-hitting campaign against cancer on four fronts-prevention, treatment, teaching, research...
...Brunschwig's methods include massive transfusions (as much as twelve pints of blood and plasma in some cases) and big liquid feedings by injection, before & after the operation. Most of the functions of the stomach, pancreas and some other organs, Brunschwig points out, can be performed by substitutes: a section of intestine takes the place of the stomach, a thin slice of pancreas left in the body, or injections, can supply the body's insulin needs...
...Brunschwig's conclusion: a man could probably survive with part of one adrenal gland, part of the liver, about 30% of the small bowel, one kidney, a few other abdominal odds & ends...