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Word: transplanter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leon Masden, 19, of Shepherdsville, Ky., suffers from chronic glomerulonephritis. a severe kidney disease. Leon has lost 98% of his kidney function, suffers also from congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, anemia. His only chance of survival, say the doctors, is the transplant of a kidney from his healthy twin brother Leonard. Such transplants have been made successfully three times by surgeons at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. (Use of an identical twin is necessary to avoid the risk of hostile antibodies developing in the recipient's system.) But in the case of the Masden boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Keep a Brother | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...they can wisely use help that respects their traditions and ways." Proposed Ike: universities for peace, to be set up by U.S. universities and philanthropic foundations to help each nation "develop its human and natural resources. [But] in no respect should the purpose of these institutions be to transplant into new areas the attitudes, the forms, the procedures of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Lift Up Your Eyes | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...Mass.) Hospital last May for an emergency appendectomy, surgeons found his appendix all right, but there was a tumor in his right kidney, so they removed the kidney. Only afterward did they learn that Keefe had never had a left kidney; despite artificial-kidney aid and a wistfully hopeful transplant, he died. Now his widow, who gave birth to their son after her husband's death, is suing Dr. John A. Fraser and Dr. G. Stanley Miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...Galeazzi had given Angelo a corneal transplant-an operation illegal in Italy. The surgery appeared to be a success, though it would be another month before Dr. Galeazzi could be fairly certain that the boy, blinded by quicklime three years ago, had regained permanent sight. (Only about 60% of all corneal transplants are rated as lasting successes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Law Was Blind | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

Abnormally Developed. Under their Five Year Plan, the Communists proclaimed that industry must be shifted from the old seaboard cities to new centers in the interior. One of the first moves: transplant Shanghai's textile mills, heart of the city's industry, to cotton-growing areas. Last spring came an even stiffer edict. "It is absolutely necessary to reduce the population," decreed the city's Communist People's Congress. The reported goal: 50%. Explained the newspaper Sin Wen Daily: "Shanghai was abnormally developed ... for the benefit of imperialism, bureaucratic capital and feudalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Problem City | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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