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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...
Hearts have been transplanted from one dog to another and have taken over the job of pumping the recipient animal's blood, reported Dr. Watts R. Webb, who worked on the project with Dr. Hector S. Howard at the University of Mississippi. The heart alone would be too difficult to move, said Dr. Webb, because of the many blood-vessel connections to the lungs. So his team tried transplanting the heart in combination with both lungs, and then with the left lung only...
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...