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...still highly experimental and seldom successful for long, Charity Hospital surgeons had more desperately ill patients needing transplants than there were human donors available. Early this fall they had made an heroic attempt to deal with the shortage by transplanting two kidneys from a rhesus monkey to a 32-year-old woman (TIME, Oct. 25). But after a few days, the patient died. All the doctors could offer Davis was the same sort of slim chance...
...better now than I have in five years." How did he feel about having kidneys from a chimpanzee? "The doctors explained I couldn't live with what I'd got. I was worried, of course-but not about the animal business. I knew it would be a monkey. It didn't bother me. All I wanted to do was to survive. I feel wonderful." Feeling that way, Davis went home for Christmas with his four children, ages 13 to 19. "I'll just sit back and wait for the mailman," he said. With a Government pension...
Truant Pet. The Two Old Maids is a story about two aging sisters who live in shabby seclusion with their ancient housekeeper and a beloved pet-a mettlesome monkey named Tombo, who, "though a eunuch, was, after all, the male of the house." One day the Mother Superior of the neighboring convent brings alarming news: Tombo has been seen stealing into the chapel at night where he ate the consecrated hosts, tried to say Mass, and even urinated on the altar. It is clear to one sister that he must die. The old maids consult two priests, the older...
...from a Monkey. Today, at least twoscore Americans are going about their business kept alive and active by kidneys transplanted from other people. Some of the donors were living at the time of the operation, some were dead; some were close kin, some unrelated. In Denver, Royal Jones, 12, went blind for a while because of kidney disease but is now well enough to play ball, thanks to a transplant last November from his mother. Another Denver patient, Jerry Will Ruth, 24, got a kidney from Brother Billy, 22; he pumps gas and greases cars, declares, "I feel as good...
...brain tumor. A man in Virginia whose body sloughed off one kidney transplant was making medical history by apparently accepting a second. These were all "homotransplants" (between two humans). But in New Orleans, a woman for whom no donor could be found in time, had a pair of monkey kidneys implanted in her groin. This was the first significant "heterotransplant" (between different species), important even though it finally failed and the patient went back on the artificial kidney...