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...machinery inside the truck is able to separate out of the whole blood many fractions never before available. As the blood can be rushed right from the donor into the machines, the blood will preserve its utmost potency...
While Mrs. Tucker stayed in the hospital for five weeks, staff doctors looked for a suitable donor. Finally they found a dying woman of Mrs. Tucker's age, general size and blood type. Ten minutes after the donor died, Surgeon Lawler and Dr. James West began operations in adjoining rooms. Dr. Lawler removed one of Mrs. Tucker's diseased kidneys while Dr. West removed a healthy kidney from the dead woman...
Forty visiting surgeons and doctors then watched Dr. Lawler transplant the healthy kidney into Mrs. Tucker's body, skillfully fastening vein, artery and ureter. When the clamps were removed, 45 minutes after the donor had died, the kidney in Mrs. Tucker's body took on a healthy pink color...
...world's largest collention of Emily Dickinson poems-including autograph drafts of 958 of her works-has been presented to Houghton Library. The donor is Gilbert Holland Montague '01, New York lawyer and bibliophile...
When conventional treatment failed to clear up his condition, the doctors decided that Bobby should have a cross transfusion-a daring technique (TIME, June 13) of interchanging his blood with that of a healthy donor. The donor's kidneys were supposed to do some of the work which Bobby's were failing tb do, and thus give the ailing organs a chance to mend...