Word: transplanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help Mamazan. Impressed by what the $20,000 bought, Iran's government put a whopping $400,000 into the N.E.F.'s work A ten-year-old who had gone to Noe's school said proudly: "I can teach my father how to transplant lettuce and how to keep the cabbage from freezing...
...Little Company of Mary Hospital. There is no known cure for polycystic kidneys, an ailment in which cysts form and destroy the normal kidney tissue. After talking things over with her husband, Mrs. Tucker agreed to let Dr. Richard Lawler, 54 staff member at the hospital, try a transplant...
Forty visiting surgeons and doctors then watched Dr. Lawler transplant the healthy kidney into Mrs. Tucker's body, skillfully fastening vein, artery and ureter. When the clamps were removed, 45 minutes after the donor had died, the kidney in Mrs. Tucker's body took on a healthy pink color...
Some doctors, doubting that the operation would work, pointed out that similar transplant operations on animals have not been entirely successful...
...Hygiene. Said he: "From his findings that 70% of the cultures he studied have no taboo against premarital promiscuity, Professor Murdock jumps to the conclusion that the taboo is out of place in this culture. This is not a scientific conclusion on his part. You can't transplant the sex habits of the inhabitants of Truk and the Samoa Islands into Christian industrial America unless you transplant the meaning those sex habits have there ... It may well be that in a society like ours-where we are more insistent than are other cultures that sex have in it mutual...