Word: rhesus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from man to man is 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...
What are the Sox' chances of maintaining their present lofty gait (7-5)? That's like asking what are the chances that a rhesus monkey, given a pack of Corrasable Bond and rubber stamps of the letters A and X, will turn out the 1962 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. But the Red Sox are high in the commodity known as spirit, and as Connie Mack used to say, if you haven't got it there, the prospects of your having it at all are remote at best...
...virus which occurs naturally in primates (rhesus and related monkeys) has been shown capable of causing cancer. Both Merck & Co. virologists and Dr. Bernice Eddy of the National Institutes of Health, who reported similar results, had to go back to hamsters to start their cancers growing, but there was no doubt that they got their effects with a virus, known variously as the vacuolating agent and SV (for simian virus) 40. It is the first primate virus shown to cause cancer in any animal...
...Swell," was the comment of Rhesus J. Portfolio '03 after his team's crippling 3 1/4-3 upset loss to Samuel Tech yesterday on Soldiers Field...
...Rhesus J. Portfolio has been responsible for the Golden Renascence of the game at Harvard. "I first came to the sport," Portfolio recalls, "while reading Ecclesiastes with President Eliot. I don't think he fully appreciated my ideas, but it struck me right off as the final solution to our athletics problems. It builds character, you know...