Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less than two months ago, Jefferson Davis, 44, was edging perilously close to certain death. A Negro dock worker, he had been in New Orleans' Charity Hospital since January with steadily worsening kidney disease. Doctors had kept him alive by dialysis, pumping salt and sugar solutions into his abdominal...
Even though transplantation of a kidney from man to man is still highly experimental and seldom successful for long, Charity Hospital surgeons had more desperately ill patients needing transplants than there were human donors available. Early this fall they had made an heroic attempt to deal with the shortage by...
Matched Blood. For a week, Davis was dosed with three potent drugs that suppress the body's natural tendency to reject any "foreign" protein. In Tulane University's colony of primates, hematologists checked the blood group of Adam, an 80-lb. chimpanzee about seven years old. It was...
Across the street in Charity Hospital, other surgeons made an incision in Davis' right flank. They implanted the chimp's ureters in Davis' bladder, and made artery and vein connections. Within ten minutes after the hookup, Adam's kidneys began to purify Davis' blood and...
Davis did well for four days. Then his system tried to reject the graft. He ran a fever, and the kidneys began to falter. The doctors boosted Davis' dosage of immunity-suppressing drugs. To their relief, the treatment worked. In the fourth week there was another, similar crisis. Adam...