Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be some time before the first man with an artificial heart walks down the street on artificial legs, breathing through an artificial lung, his blood coursing through long stretches of artificial artery, his metabolic poisons filtered by an internal artificial kidney, while he admires the landscape through artificial corneas in eyes filled with a chemical fluid the consistency of molasses. It may be that no one man will ever enjoy all these advantages of alloplasty-surgery in which foreign materials are used to replace the body's natural parts. But it will not be long before many people...
Filters & Glues. Artificial kidneys now in use are as big as a washing machine or an entire laundry, but medical engineers are making them ever smaller; they hope eventually to devise one that can actually be put inside the body. A hopeful lead comes from a plastic called polyvinyl pyrrolidone, now widely used as the setting agent in women's hair sprays. PVP membranes pass chemicals between the blood and the cleansing water of the artificial kidney about three times as fast as the cellophane membranes now used. PVP has another advantage for an implantable kidney: like Silastic...
...which showed that the aneurysm had increased in size, and within a week had grown bigger than an orange. The beat of the blood pulsing through it could be felt by the doctor's hand. And it was in an especially dangerous location, below the branching of the kidney arteries (see diagram). It was time for surgery, but there did not seem to be much of a rush -the duke went to Houston by slow, jolting train...
...tried to carry her to safety, the rest of the girl's clothing was ripped off; Garcia's pockets were picked, his watch was snatched from his wrist, his head was smacked with what felt like a piece of pipe, and something smashed against his right kidney. His knees sagged, but he kept going...
...Belding H. Scribner of the Seattle Artificial Kidney Unit, which houses a monster machine for treating 15 patients at once under hospital conditions (TIME, April 24), is also treating two patients at home by essentially the same technique as that used in Boston, though the equipment differs in detail. One of his patients is a high school girl who leaves classes early twice a week so that her mother can dialyze her, while she does her homework...