Word: webbe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What is the West? Who but an editor would ask such a question? Who but a genius could answer it?" begins Walter Prescott Webb's introductory essay to this collection compiled by the Chicago Corral of Westerners. Webb, the most distinguished scholar to appear in the book, hardly provides the answer to the question...
...West is the Desert. Anybody at all familiar with the West is certainly aware of the importance of the Desert in shaping the lives of the inhabitants of the region, but to say the Desert is the only physical characteristic of the West is a gross over-simplification. Webb, who teaches at the University of Texas, has had his conception of the West shaped by the Great Plains, which served as the title of his greatest book...
After the heart and both lungs were transplanted. Dr. Webb reported, the "spare-part" heart soon took over and kept beating as long as 28 hours before the experiment was abandoned. But the animal could not breathe by itself, without the aid of the lung machine, because the transplanted lungs had no nerve connections. If only the left lung was transplanted, the recipient's right lung still had nerve connections to transmit the breathing reflexes. In dogs so treated, the transplanted heart beat normally, and the unmatched lungs breathed, for as long as 18 hours...
...spare heart come from? Perhaps, suggest the doctors, from an accident victim. By keeping heart-lung systems chilled for eight hours and getting them to work again, the surgeons have now shown that there would be more than enough time for such a surgical swap. Indeed, as optimistic Surgeon Webb sees it the one major problem remaining is the immune reaction...
...Said Dr. Webb: "When this problem of immunity is overcome, there should be no major obstacle to transplanting human hearts, or even using animal hearts in humans. It will probably take five to ten years, but the surgeons will be ready. In fact, I believe we're ready...