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...dawning age of the surgical transplant, there seems to be no end to the variety of daring and delicate feats that surgeons are willing to try in the hope of saving patients who would otherwise be doomed by the failure of a vital organ...
...Department by department the Commonwealth's government is being run by patronage," Dumaine stated. He countered the charge that the Crime Commission is the "political vendetta of the Republican Party," calling it a necessary organ for maintaining "some morality" in the governorship...
Crystal Pipe Organ. Iowa-born Chemist Craig, 57, went to the Rockefeller in 1933 and did a monumental job separating the ingredients of ergot. World War II prompted Dr. Craig to switch to a group of chemicals that the armed forces were studying as substitutes for quinine. Among them was chloroquine, and Dr. Craig needed to know whether a chloroquine preparation was reasonably pure or contaminated with too many related chemicals...
Working with Technician Otto Post, he put together an intricate array of glassware that looks like a crystal pipe organ for Queen Mab's palace. It makes no music, but clicks monotonously every 30 to 120 seconds when it tilts to pour off some of its mixture. This C.C.D. machine works on the principle of liquid-liquid extraction: two substances are not likely to be equally soluble in two different solvents. And if the solvents are not soluble in each other, they can be separated. Whatever is dissolved in them will be separated also...
...M.G.H. and Brigham doctors were not discouraged. The attempt to save Bingel, helped by a widow's understanding, had been a noteworthy feat of medical and surgical cooperation. It failed, said Dr. Moore, "because all transplant patients face the problem of the organ's getting used to its new host-the host and the liver have to learn to live together." Renewed attempts to teach them to live together were certain to be made soon. Even as Joseph Bingel died, a gathering of transplant experts convened in Washington to figure out improved methods of increasing those chances...