Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After 21 days of battling to preserve a fragile life, Dr. Leonard Bailey was visibly spent. His voice trembled and broke with emotion last Friday as he faced the press at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California to provide the epitaph for the dark-haired infant known as Baby Fae. "Today we grieve the loss of this patient's life," said the 41-year-old heart surgeon. That life, he insisted, had not been in vain. "Infants with heart disease yet to be born will some day soon have the opportunity to live, thanks to the courage of this...
...parents had consented to so drastic a procedure. Nonetheless, Fae's struggle for survival converted many skeptics and won the hearts of millions of people. Her progress and setbacks?virtually every beat of her simian heart?were avidly followed. Hundreds of Americans sent cards, flowers, even money to the infant as gestures of support and sympathy...
...Leonard L. Bailey, the California surgeon who supervised the pioneering transplant last month of a baboon heart to the infant Baby Fac, Predicted soon after the procedure was completed that his tiny patient would lead a "long and healthy" life...
Then last week, after Bailey had all but convinced Baby Fae's news-hungry fans, that all was fine and as suddenly as the story of her heart had flashed across newspapers and television screens worldwide, the infant died...
...part, Bailey found it hard to understand why people would question a procedure that was saving the life of a dying infant. "If you had the opportunity to see this baby and her mother together, and see this baby in the best shape she's ever been, you would see the propriety of what we are doing," he said...