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...first serious attempts to transplant organs by modern surgical techniques began in the early 1900s, when pioneering Dr. Charles Claude Guthrie, working at St. Louis' Washington University, created two-headed dogs by grafting. Today most of the surgical techniques have been perfected. Such surgeons as Stanford's Norman E. Shumway Jr. have developed grafting to the point where a dog with an unrelated dog's transplanted heart is up and hopping around within 24 hours, but it dies within three weeks...
...field of transplants, the great target is the heart. Some victims of atherosclerotic coronary disease (the leading killer in the U.S. today) might be saved if they could receive a transplant of a healthy heart from, say, a traffic accident victim. Infants with certain inborn heart defects would have a chance of survival...
...that it has won fame and fortune for Dr. Niehans there is no doubt. Born in Bern, son of a professor of orthodox medicine, Niehans studied for the Protestant ministry before turning to medicine. He practiced conventional surgery and endocrinology until the late 19205. Then he got interested in transplanting organs from animals to humans. (By no coincidence, this was at the height of the late Serge Voronoff's vogue as a transplanter of monkey testicles.) In 1931 Dr. Niehans had a woman patient whom he rated too ill for a gland transplant. He gave her instead an injection...
...Projects to transplant useful organisms, e.g., U.S. oysters or lobsters, from one part of the ocean to another...
...heart eventually ceased functioning, the project was a success in that it showed that lowering the freezing point of organs even further might allow them to be kept almost indefinitely, according to Dr. Samuel W. Jacob, instructor in Surgery and part of the research team. If a way to transplant tissues permanently is discovered this finding will be invaluable...