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...promising solution to that formidable problem is being tested by medical-research teams at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island and at the University of Washington in Seattle. The doctors insert two plastic tubes in the patient's forearm, one into an artery and the other into a vein. With the patient's own heart serving as the pump, his blood is led into a loop of tubing and carried behind a lead shield. There, it is subjected to massive bombardment-with isotopic radiation by Dr. Eugene P. Cronkite at Brookhaven, or with X rays...
...basic idea of irradiating blood outside the body is not new, but for years it was impractical because patients needed surgery as often as once a day to implant and remove the forearm tubes. The current adaptation was made possible by Dr. Belding H. Scribner of Seattle (TIME, May 12, 1961), who devised a way of implanting the tubes permanently in the arms of patients needing regular treatments on the artificial kidney...
Fadden also proposed a rule change: outlaw the high-arm block. A blocker can ram his forearm or elbow into an opponent's face despite the protection of the mask. Cage masks which leave no opening wide enough for an elbow are fine for linemen, but backs, who need more visibility, are forced to use the conventional double or single bar variety. If high-arm blocking were illegal, Fadden believes that there would be no need for the face mask...
Water from the Faucet. Two afternoons each week, a Boston lawyer leaves his office early and goes home to bed. His rolled-up left sleeve discloses two plastic tubes permanently implanted in his forearm, one set in a vein, the other in an artery. Their outside ends are connected so that blood flows freely through them. A physician from Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital takes the lawyer's blood pressure. In his bedroom, near the bathroom, is a waist-high tank of stainless steel equipped with an electric motor and pump, an array of tubes...
...four to six hours, while the lawyer can doze or read briefs, the blood from his forearm artery flows through the plastic coils in the bath. Metabolic poisons that should have been excreted in his urine have accumulated in his blood. (Uremia patients urinate, but pass only a small volume of weak, watery liquid.) In the artificial kidney, the poisons are leached out of the blood through the walls of the cellophane tubing and into the chemical bath...