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...Doctors had experimented with bone-marrow transplants in the mid-'50s, primarily to combat leukemia. But their efforts proved generally unsuccessful. Immunologically sound bone marrow contained cells that recognized the recipient of this gift as "foreign." The new cells, in a phenomenon known as "graft v. host" reaction, thus rejected the host, producing lymphocytes capable of reacting with and destroying his tissue. In fact, the reaction, combined with infection and other factors, could prove fatal to the recipient whose immune system was either weak or absent...
...David Camp, who was suffering from hereditary immunodeficiency disease, which had already killed twelve infants on the maternal side of his family. Thinking back to work that he himself had done in 1956, Good remembered that mice given bone marrow from donors whose cells were genetically similar suffered from graft-v.-host reaction but never died from it. He reasoned that David, too, would survive if a good tissue match could be found...
...local anesthetic, Good's team inserted a needle into the bone of the sister's leg and withdrew about a billion marrow cells. Then, they injected the cells into David's peritoneal cavity, relying on the cells' natural homing instincts to guide them to the bone marrow. The graft took. Graft-v.-host reaction set in, peaked and finally passed. The new cells overcame David's lethal legacy by giving him the immune system he lacked; the child, now five, is immunologically normal...
...however, exterior wealth was his undoing. The widening investigation turned up the fact that he owned a vineyard in the Jura mountains and a villa by the Mediterranean in addition to a $50,000 Lyon apartment (which alone might have been explained away by simple graft). Now, Tonnot, a Lyon University law graduate, faces a ten-year jail sentence and $50,000 fine: "I'm done for," he sobbed when he was arrested. "I'm going to kill myself." Pending trial, a considerate magistrate put him in a suburban jail rather than the Lyon lockup, where Tonnot might...
...right. I was relieved. What Caravan has done can't harm a play that is broad and strong enough to make sexuality seem merely incidental. The graft doesn't take; the plant is healthier than ever. Jarring additions, such as Didi's case of the clap, or the segment where Pozzo and Lucky grope vainly boringly, Hairiedly for each other on the floor of the stage, are absorbed in the larger effort to deal with "the way it is on this bitch of as earth...