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After houses come gardens. A big house is one way to establish Paradise, but a garden, historically, is a more appropriate place to start. The childish "What if that envisions a mansion is not nearly so ambitious as one that seeks to transplant cypresses from one soil to another (as Hearst did in San Simeon) or to display the rarest species. (After seeing Lionel Rothschild's Japanese garden in London, the Japanese Ambassador was said to remark: "We have nothing like this in Japan.") Versailles, the model of gardening for so many big spenders, must have had Eden...
When South African Surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967, medicine instantly had a new glamour field. In two years, more than 60 teams around the world replaced failing hearts in about 150 people. Barely 20% of the patients survived after twelve months. By the mid-'70s the operation was abandoned by nearly all its early advocates...
...transplants are gaining new attention, largely because of a rising success rate at California's Stanford University Medical Center, where 199 heart exchanges have been performed since 1968. About 65% of the patients treated there by Transplant Pioneer Norman Shumway and his team now survive at least a year, and 50% live for five years...
Finally, a biopsy technique developed in 1972 is helping doctors tell when a patient's immunological defense system is attempting to reject the transplant. Drugs used to suppress rejection also limit the body's ability to ward off infection. The biopsy technique allows drugs to be used with more precision, thus tempering their undesired effect...
...health authorities are also grappling with this issue. The bill for a transplant, nearly always paid by private health plans or public funds, ranges from $30,000 to $190,000; postoperative ambulatory care costs $2,500 a year. The trustees of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital this year voted against starting a transplant program partly because they reckoned that each patient would consume as much of the hospital's resources as eight routine open-heart operations...