Word: transplantation
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...almost accidental discovery was made after doctors at Memorial had all but given up hope for a patient dying of renal failure. The vaunted artificial kidney could no longer clear the poisons from his blood, and only a transplant offered any hope. But the only kidney available was far from promising. The donor had type A blood while the kidney patient had type O. Worse, the donor's kidney was infected and was about to be removed because it was draining improperly. It had already been physically damaged by obstruction resulting from cancer of the colon...
Surgeon Walter Lawrence Jr. made the transplant anyway. To the doctors' astonishment, there was no rejection process. Ten weeks after surgery, the 36-year-old man went back to work as a telephone operator. Sixteen months have now elapsed and he reports that he never felt better...
John R. Moot '43, the other co-chairman, expects the MDC to transplant ninety trees and tear down seven this fall...
...editors-by the very nature of their mission-went right on with a full schedule of stories on another level, such as ART'S critique of "op art," a new movement across the Western world; MEDICINE'S report on the use of animal corneas for transplant into the human eye; RELIGION'S study of an ecumenical milestone, the first Bible translation to combine the labors of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish scholars...
...announced Thursday that it would transplant the trees, which include 35 sycamores, to avoid their destruction by the Boylston St. underpass. The Boston Globe reported the operation would begin in December...