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...young Colorado mother was getting along well last week although her liver had been replaced by one taken from a dead man. A boy of twelve was living a normal life in his Pueblo, Colo., home with his mother's spleen inside him, while his mother went about her chores with no spleen at all. A couple of lung transplants have been tried, and though the patients died, there will soon be others...
...general practitioner who operates a medical center near City Hall, also speaks for the anti-fluoridationists, but is not affiliated with any organization. Claiming that fluoride ("a poison more deadly than arsenic") can have deleterious effects on the nervous system, the circulatory system, the bones, the thyroid gland, the liver, the kidneys, and the heart, Brusch bases much of his argument on the difficulty of regulating one's daily intake of the chemical...
...rose eluded Edith Piaf. Her greatest love, Boxer Marcel Cerdan, was killed in a plane crash in 1949, and her first marriage ended in divorce. Four separate automobile accidents all but crushed her frail body, and she was racked with ulcers, jaundice, arthritis, and cirrhosis of the liver. She took to drugs and young men, married her second husband, Hairdresser Théo Sarapo, 25, only last year, when she was 46. Each misfortune marred her voice but only seemed to give new poignancy to her artistry. Despite doctors' warnings, the nearly crippled singer insisted on going on tour...
Since man can live only about 36 hours without liver function, and three of the Denver patients lived longer than that, it is clear that the transplanted organs have worked. So did Joseph Bin-gel's, for eleven days. Then he died...
...attempt to save Bingel, helped by a widow's understanding, had been a noteworthy feat of medical and surgical cooperation. It failed, said Dr. Moore, "because all transplant patients face the problem of the organ's getting used to its new host-the host and the liver have to learn to live together." Renewed attempts to teach them to live together were certain to be made soon. Even as Joseph Bingel died, a gathering of transplant experts convened in Washington to figure out improved methods of increasing those chances...