Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...queried Quaeritor as to the value in studying such primitive peoples. "Well, it's valuable to escape the social orientation of the dominant European transplant of this country. Socio-economically speaking, the norm motivations of the Jivarro reveal a ritualized libido only slightly modified by environmental quasi-determinants, you know." Quaeritor cracked a coconut and drained it of its juice...
Would you kindly answer the following questions: Are penguins good to eat, and has anyone ever tried to transplant them from the Antarctic to the Arctic...