Word: livers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Being a living legend in one's own lifetime is hard on the liver-especially in Paris. But it is even harder on the serious biographer who, several generations later, tries to separate subject and myth. Poet-Critic Guillaume Apollinaire, who died on the eve of the 1918 armistice, is an almost classic case in point. For the avantgarde, he loomed as a giant figure, an irrepressible rebel against stuffy conventions, a decisive experimental voice in modern French poetry, and the cultural midwife of the cubist movement in painting. For most of the rest of the world...
...anti-cancer drug, usually Methotrexate. The clock motor and pump are so delicate that they are capable of spreading this supply over a week, delivering it via a plastic tube pushed through a small incision into an artery or vein. Patients with cancers of the head, neck and liver have already been helped by home treatment with the Lahey device...
...friends. Alabama's Clyde Morton, at 65 the dean of U.S. breeders, has won eleven National Bird Dog championships, sells dogs to such fanciers as former Treasury Secretary George Humphrey and British Cine-mogul J. Arthur Rank, once turned down an offer of $8,000 for Palamonium, a liver-and-white pointer that won the 1956 and 1959 Nationals...
Within minutes after the donor died, Ralph Huntley, a mechanical engineer who has switched to biophysics, began cooling the body "from the inside out" by perfusing it with chilled saline solution. He kept this up while Surgeon Thomas Marchioro cut out the liver. Dr. Starzl cut out Mrs. Goodfellow's diseased liver at almost the same moment as its replacement arrived in a chilled, sterile container. Then Dr. Starzl stitched the newly arrived liver in, connecting its blood vessels to their counterparts in Mrs. Goodfellow's body. This part of the operation took 164 minutes...
...days, Mrs. Goodfellow was kept in sterile isolation: the danger of infection had increased enormously because Mrs. Goodfellow's defenses against it had been weakened by the immunosuppressive drugs, Imuran and prednisone, that the doctors had given her to increase the likelihood that the liver graft would "take" instead of being rejected. Last week she was well enough to take a ride outside the hospital, but the crucial time, determining whether her system will accept or reject her grafted liver, is not likely to come until early in November...