Word: liverance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from themselves. They have eyes to see, ears to hear, and fingers for the note in their report. It was as if the drink he took in now moved him millimeter from one hat into another. He would be driven yet to participate or keep the shame in his liver--the last place to store such emotion! --Norman Mailer, 'Miami Beach and Chicago...
...When the liver fails completely, the results are so predictably fatal that doing anything that might provide relief is better than doing nothing. The healthy liver not only performs dozens of vital metabolic chores, it is also an essential purification plant, purging toxic wastes from the bloodstream. Even diseased, the liver has a remarkable capability: it can often regenerate its damaged cells and rebuild lost tissues. The problem is to keep the patient alive while the liver is taking a recuperative holiday...
...year-old nurse and mother of two children who was brought to Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital last July in a deep coma. Only a few days before, she had suffered a miscarriage. Early in her pregnancy, she had contracted severe hepatitis, and it left her liver badly damaged. Doctors tried seven blood exchanges, giving her body an entirely new supply of blood each time. Yet there was no noticeable improvement, and finally they turned in desperation to the baboon...
...farmers' crops that they are legally classified as vermin in South Africa. Highly developed primates and kin to man, baboons are also highly useful in medical research. Only recently, a baboon's cornea was successfully grafted onto a man's eye. A pig's liver, although it tolerates human blood, is not nearly so sophisticated as the baboon...
Equalizing the Flow. Unlike previous work with pig organs, Groote Schuur's procedure involved not only the animal's liver but its entire circulatory system, heart and all. And the doctors did not kill the animal first. To prepare the baboon, a robust 57-lb. male, they put it under an anesthetic, then replaced its entire blood supply with human blood of the same type as Mrs. Voogt's. Nearly five hours later, after the animal's heartbeat and circulation had stabilized, the baboon was ready for the hookup with Mrs. Voogt. The surgeons deftly...