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...Multiply. The spleen, lymph nodes and bone marrow manufacture white blood cells of a type known as lymphocytes, which are loaded with antibody ammunition to battle any invader. They attack a transplant much as they would fight an army of diseasecausing virus particles. But transplant patients' lymphocytes show more hostility to cells from some donors than from others. Dr. Kurt Hirschhorn and Dr. Fritz Bach of New York University School of Medicine noted that when lymphocytes from two people of widely different ethnic groups were put together in a test tube, the cells became overactive; they enlarged and multiplied...
Begin with a sauna bath. Even Charlton Heston likes saunas. Install a bidet in your bathroom. Love Tom Jones. Adore Barbra Streisand. Get a dress shirt with hundreds of layers of overlapping eyelet ruffles. When you are hostess, wear evening skirts. Serve baked marrow bones. Appear in your own hair, because wigs have had it. So has LSD. Don't wear mink anywhere but to bed (sable is safe enough elsewhere), and don't ever mention Cleopatra...
First they gave the patient a hefty dose of gamma rays-enough not only to knock out his bone marrow but to kill him, unless he soon got some more marrow. Within a week, they report in the British Medical Journal, they injected into his veins two quarts of a mixture of blood and bone marrow drawn from all six of his closest...
...atmosphere as nearly germ-free as possible, the patient got sick. He developed a usually fatal form of tuberculosis: evidently some bacilli had been dormant in his body, and the radiation had destroyed his defenses against infection. Somehow, today's miracle drugs pulled him through, and his new marrow is still manufacturing new cells...
...Paris doctors are not sure, but from matching cells they think it was his youngest brother. Their shotgun attack with cells from six donors, they suggest, gave the patient's own system a chance to select the most suitable marrow...