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...Hearts, Thomas Thompson tells the story of these two master surgeons, concentrating on their unsuccessful but dramatic experiments with the heart transplant, an operation first executed by South Africa's Dr. Christiaan Barnard. Thompson, a Texan and a staff writer for LIFE, spent several months in Houston last year after the transplant frenzy had subsided. He made rounds with DeBakey, Cooley and their entourages, donned surgical green to watch operations, and talked with dozens of doctors and patients. He has put together a somewhat disjointed but compelling account of a rarefied sphere in the world of medicine...
Neither of the two previous patients to undergo heart-lung transplants lived for more than a few days after their operations. Still, South Africa's Dr. Christiaan Barnard had no hesitation about attempting the surgical spectacular last month. His patient, Adrian Herbert, 49, was near death from emphysema, and Barnard felt that the operation offered the only chance for survival (TIME, Aug. 9). Last week, 23 days after the operation, Herbert died at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital...
There had been two previous transplants of a human heart with both lungs attached, all in the U.S., and none of the recipients lived more than a few days. But last week, in Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed this feat of surgical bravura. The man who first transplanted a human heart has lost none of his daring or his ability to provoke controversy...
...divorce of pioneer Heart Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, 48, from his first wife Louwtjie, 47, was not exactly friendly. Louwtjie simmered while he married a younger, wealthier woman, but she publicly branded her ex-husband a liar when his memoirs appeared with some unflattering comments on their 21 years together. Now Barnard has announced that he has written a new book, Heart Attack, aimed at "helping the heart sufferer toward a better comprehension of his disease." Simultaneously, Louwtjie announced that she, too, has written a study of heart problems -though ones not necessarily connected with vascular stress...
...showdown has been directed not so much against a denomination as such as against individual critics and anti-apartheid organizations like the Christian Institute. Aggressively promoting multiracial cooperation, the institute has been a particularly bitter pill for the government; it is led by Christiaan F. Beyers Naude, an exile from the country's dominant, pro-apartheid Dutch Reformed Church...