Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home and was soon up & around. Following routine, his father was kept in the hospital to make sure that he had suffered no harm. At first, as is usual, he ran a slight fever, but he quickly recovered. Sidney Lawrence was about to be discharged when he developed severe liver and kidney trouble. Last week, 13 days after the transfusion, he died...
Doctors and technicians at Permanente made a searching post-mortem examination. This week, their conclusion was that some unknown protein factor in the boy's blood caused an explosive reaction in the father's kidneys and liver. Such a mischance, they said, could just as easily result from an ordinary injection or from any other treatment in which a foreign substance is introduced into the bloodstream...
...having the heart inclining to the right, the other to the left. Other organs were similarly transposed. Their breastbones were fused. The twins shared some rib cartilage and other tissues. So far as the surgeons could tell in advance, their biggest problem was going to be separating the large liver which the twins shared...
...rays had not told all. The one liver had to be divided where it was thickest, three inches in diameter. Worse yet, the anxious doctors found that the twins' chest cavities were connected and contained a single sac which held both their hearts. The hearts were abnormally long and crossed over, so that each beat partly in the other twin's body. When the hearts were separated, there was no room for them in the tiny, undeveloped chest cavities...
Died. Daniel Frisch, 52, Palestine-born president of the Zionist Organization of America and a General Zionist world leader; after an operation for a liver ailment; in Manhattan. A retired investment broker and onetime executive of an Indianapolis salvage firm, Frisch campaigned for strong ties between the U.S. and Israel...