Word: organized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seeing "the Prof," as she calls Barnard, carrying in the donor heart, in a stainless-steel pan. When he removed Louis Washkansky's heart, Barnard put this in a pan and handed it to Nurse Jordaan. This moment had no emotional impact. The heart seemed like just another organ to be sent to the pathology department-but in this case, the next stop was the hospital museum...
Under the exuberant direction of Denis Mickiewicz the group sang as one like a great human organ with vocal chords in place of pipes. Their repertoire is small but polished. Everything is done from memory and it was obvious from the performance that the chorus knows each selection inside...
...muscularity. "Get those sweat glands working! Kick! Back! One-and-kick-and-two-and-kick-and-smile-and-kick! Don't stop! Smile and kick!" He wears ballet slippers and a body-hugging, low-cut jump suit, and bounds around like the original jumping Jack. Backed by bubbly organ music, he gives lectures on the beauties of sweating ("It's Mother Nature's air conditioner"), sings, tells jokes, blows kisses and delivers sermonettes. No one, he says, can hope for a sound body without a heavy dose of "vitamin F-faith, and vitamin...
...method has many advantages over the old one. Most important, the hemophiliac tends to produce antibodies which counteract the vital Factor VIII when it is injected. With the new techniques of organ transplant that have recently been developed, it is possible to establish a permanent source of Factor VIII inside the hemophiliac--by inserting an entirely new spleen...
...experimental success with Ellie is a prelude to a trial with a human hemophiliac. In most cases the plan is for a normal mother to donate her spleen--which is not usually a vital organ--to her hemophiliac son. The close genetic relationship between mother and son would minimize the difficulty of the transplant...