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...from a Monkey. Today, at least twoscore Americans are going about their business kept alive and active by kidneys transplanted from other people. Some of the donors were living at the time of the operation, some were dead; some were close kin, some unrelated. In Denver, Royal Jones, 12, went blind for a while because of kidney disease but is now well enough to play ball, thanks to a transplant last November from his mother. Another Denver patient, Jerry Will Ruth, 24, got a kidney from Brother Billy, 22; he pumps gas and greases cars, declares, "I feel as good...
...youngest patient ever to receive a kidney transplant was operated on recently in a Manhattan hospital: not yet two years old, the little white boy had a kidney transplanted from a Negro boy of 13, who died of a brain tumor. A man in Virginia whose body sloughed off one kidney transplant was making medical history by apparently accepting a second. These were all "homotransplants" (between two humans). But in New Orleans, a woman for whom no donor could be found in time, had a pair of monkey kidneys implanted in her groin. This was the first significant "heterotransplant" (between...
Across the street at Denver's VA Hospital, a man was admitted for accidental gunshot wounds, and when it became clear that he could not survive, relatives gave permission for the use of his liver in a transplant. As the prospective donor's life ebbed, Surgeon Thomas E. Starzl opened Mrs. Goodfellow's abdomen to get her ready for a quick transplant. This operation took ten hours. Her liver was so enlarged by disease that instead of a normal 4 Ibs. it weighed closer to 20 Ibs. Dr. Starzl left his patient anesthetized, with her liver "just...
...Starzl's Denver team also performed the spleen transplant between mother and son. The boy, Richard Hill, suffered from a shortage of gamma globulin in his blood, leaving him virtually defenseless against infectious diseases. This shortage arose largely from the failure of his spleen to produce enough of the antibodies that make up an important fraction of gamma globulin. The boy's mother, Mrs. Jacqueline Carver, had a good supply of gamma globulin, and her lymphatic system would maintain it. She could get along without her spleen far better than her son. The operations were performed in June...
Second Chance. So alert and powerful are the body's defenses against invasion by proteins from any other body, human or animal (except an identical twin), that some transplant researchers believe donor and recipient should be "look-alikes." An eloquent exception to that argument is a long-surviving kidney transplant, now more than a year old, from a fatally injured Negro to a white...