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...Russell L. Holman and a visitor were putting their heads together at Louisiana State University School of Medicine, pondering problems of heart-and-artery disease, when an assistant offered Holman a gory gift-an aorta, nearly 2 ft. long, full of diseased areas. It had been sent to Holman in a fine Macy's-tells-Gimbels gesture by his opposite number down the street, Dr. Charles E. Dunlap Jr. of Tulane University...
...aorta looked almost human. But Pathologist Holman knew that Pathologist Dunlap had been getting specimens from New Orleans' Audubon Park Zoo. Was it possible that here at last was an animal that developed atherosclerosis of the human type? The answer was yes. The aorta had come from a 16-year-old female baboon...
...Mile Reaction. This discovery, made in April of 1956, set Holman and his visitor, Dr. Nicholas T. Werthessen, jumping like baboons with excitement. Its importance lay in the fact that previously (except for rare cases in monkeys and expensive great apes) no animal had been known to develop arterial disease like a human being's, despite ingenious laboratory tricks. Researchers have learned much from rabbits, rats and chickens, but findings from these lower forms of life cannot be applied simply and directly to human diseases. The baboon, despite its lousy pelt, its foul temper and its embarrassingly lurid hind...
...blood. In one especially tricky procedure he hooked up a baboon's freshly removed aorta with a heart-lung machine and used radioactive sodium acetate to find out how much fat is manufactured in the walls of the aorta itself. With a small branch baboonery at L.S.U., Dr. Holman was tackling related problems. Both hoped to get vital information with a direct bearing on human heart-and-artery disease. The unfriendly dog-faced baboon thus becomes elevated to the ranks of man's best friends...
...where Charles Dickens first saw his plays produced). Then, with the broadminded blessing of her husband Sir Laurence Olivier ("Leigh often comes to visit us in the country"), she withdrew from the battle for a three-week furlough in Europe's rest areas with her ex-husband Leigh Holman and their 23-year-old daughter...