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...said that he had come "to bear sole responsibility for every political and military decision made and action taken by my people in the conduct of war." On that basis he was subject to the death penalty. In his Reminiscences MacArthur confessed that he was "moved to the very marrow of my bones." Wrote the general: "He was an Emperor by inherent birth, but in that instant I knew I faced the First Gentleman of Japan in his own right...
...adults lose teeth. Dentists routinely treat serious cases with "resective therapy"-removing diseased tissues and sometimes putting in dentures. An occasional alternative involves root-canal work. Now three Denver dentists are offering some patients a third choice. In experimental operations, they have been tapping their patients' hips for marrow to save their teeth...
Dentists have long attempted to correct some conditions by bridging sections of jawbone with particles of bone from other parts of the body. But the aim of the Denver trio-Drs. William Hiatt, Robert Schallhorn and William Boyce-is to regenerate bone rather than replace it. They graft marrow around the tooth to encourage new growth in the bone surrounding...
Complex Preparation. The operation itself is relatively easy. Patients report to the hospital in the morning to donate their own bone marrow. Under local anesthesia the marrow is taken from the hip through a hollow needle. Later the same day they go to the dentist's office, where the marrow is implanted. The procedure, which involves laying back the gum and cleaning the lesion around the tooth before filling it with bone marrow, rarely takes more than half an hour...
...year-old Mrs. Myrtle Joseph of Youngstown, Ohio, was examined by Dr. O. Whitmore Burtner, now of Miami. A bone-marrow test indicated that she suffered from chronic lymphatic leukemia, which was spreading slowly. By 1964, Mrs. Joseph needed regular blood transfusions. Her liver, spleen and lymph nodes became swollen. Then, in May 1967, she wrote a letter to Kathryn Kuhlman asking for her prayers. Within a few days she felt so well that she stopped seeing Dr. Burtner. Alarmed, he asked her to come in for tests. Her marrow, liver, spleen, lymph nodes and white blood cells were normal...