Word: implantation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operating table at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital was Haskell Karp, 47, a printing estimator from Skokie,III., his heart drastically damaged by coronary-artery disease. Karp had had an implanted pacemaker for eleven months, but it was failing. Cooley first tried to save him by cutting out the dead area of heart muscle and stitching the sides of the hole together with a piece of Dacron for reinforcement. But when this was done, Karp's heart refused to beat spontaneously. Karp had been linked during the operation to a heart-lung machine, both breathing...
...treating certain types of cancer by radiation, doctors implant little gold "seeds" inside the growths. The seeds are actually hollow gold beads, each containing radon gas. After two or three weeks, the radon's radioactivity is virtually gone. The harmless seeds are left in place, but a few of them may be sloughed off by the body. At Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a nurse saved the seeds sloughed off by the tumor and had the salvaged gold made into a ring for her boy friend. He developed red patches on his finger. Memorial...
...such quick transplants is stalled in the Brazilian legislature. Cause for the delay: a proposed provision for assigning mistresses priority over parents, brothers and sisters in granting permission for heart removals. ∙∙∙ The day before the Sao Paulo transplant, Rio de Janeiro's Dr. Edson Teixeira implanted a pancreas in diabetic, ex-soccer-star -turned -government-official Arari Charbel Rios, 28. Rather than remove Rios' failing pancreas, Teixeira simply stitched the new organ, donated by a heart-attack victim, to his patient's duodenum-snugly against the old one. At the first sign of rejection...
...sects that held that man's laws necessarily interfere with God's. One, the Nicolites, believing themselves blessed with the innocence of Paradise, refused to wear clothes; many lived in small, ungoverned communes, preaching love and sharing their goods and wives. These medieval children of love helped implant the seeds of Christianity's Protestant Reformation and set an example for today's hippie communes (not that these are much given to the study of history, medieval or otherwise...
...stiff bout of navel-gazing-and, almost surely, a religious experience that will change his existence. His guru is a holy man named Bhaiji who receives a mortal stab wound during a religious riot. And sure enough, just before his death, Bhaiji manages through his power to implant faith and purpose in Paul's life...