Word: implantation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surgeons have long used innumerable electrical gadgets in diagnosis and treatment, but they have usually kept the current outside the patient's body. Now they are developing new and daring ways to use electricity inside the body-and, in some cases, to make the electrical gadget a permanent implant with rechargeable batteries...
Then Dr. Seymour Schwartz of the University of Rochester reported that he had already implanted similar devices in two human patients. The major difference is that the Rochester pressure pacer uses no electrodes in the heart, but relies on its own battery pack, which can be recharged from outside the skin. A man with blood pressure running 220/120, despite drug treatment, had a pacer implanted on the right side of his neck two months ago, and is now reading 150/100 or lower. A woman patient who got the implant a month ago is doing equally well...
...into trouble and most needs help from the Americans, they leave it to its fate ... On the other hand, the Russians are always ready to take action." Then he added: "The Americans go around preaching liberty for all the people of the world. But in every country where they implant liberty, they also implant Communism...