Word: ewe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artery in one arm, the doctors hooked her up to an artificial kidney. But instead of letting her blood circulate through cellophane tubing in a chemical bath, and relying on the solution to remove the poisons, they wheeled a donor into the treatment room. The donor: a 130-lb. ewe, heavily draped to conceal its identity. From a neck artery and vein the doctors hooked up the ewe to another cellophane tube. This was wrapped around the tube through which the patient's blood circulated, and the two rested in a plasma solution to serve as an intermediary...
Fresh v. Powdered. Dr. Niehans experimented (often on himself) with cell extracts from various organs and glands of several young animals, eventually hit on the unborn Iamb (from a ewe slaughtered just before it is due to deliver) as the best source for most purposes. To ensure a steady supply of fresh, uncontaminated material, he has a veterinarian choose the animals and supervise slaughtering. Of his $120 minimum fee for a single injection, most goes for the raw material, he says, leaving him $30. For aged or debilitated patients, and for doctors elsewhere who want to use the method, Rhein...
...sapphire) in her guise of Russia's Empress Catherine the Great. Also gone regal was Metropolitan Opera Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas, playing her greatest nonsinging role as Hatshepsut, an 18th Dynasty Queen of Egypt. Prattled Columnist Maxwell just before the ball: "Maria and I, gentle as ewe lambs, will be side by side in the Parade of Empresses. What an amusing ending to one of my greatest 'feuds.' "* ··· A Paris court ruled that the public sale of an unexpurgated, 28-volume set of the complete works of the Marquis de Sade (TIME...
...three scientists - R. L. W. Averill, C. E. Adams and L. E. A. Rowson -flushed out newly fertilized ova from the Fallopian tubes of freshly killed pregnant ewes. Then they transplanted the tiny ova to the reproductive tracts of seven female rabbits which had been mated previously with sterilized males to activate their hormone systems. Five days later, the rabbits were killed and the sheep eggs taken out in surgery. The ova had grown as in any pregnancy. Two of the best-developed eggs were replanted in a nonpregnant ewe; 16 days later, the scientists found that the twice-switched...
...that he is not a professional cook, but an actor who can ad lib and keep guest cooks laughing. Another NBC cook, this one a past master, felt obligated on one Home show from New York to fight a duel with skewers of shish kebab while singing I Love Ewe...