The 24-year-old accountant was dying of longstanding kidney disease when he went into Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in January of 1962. Doctors used heroic measures, but it looked like a losing battle. Then another Brigham patient died after a heart operation. The hospital's famous team of kidney-transplant pioneers (TIME, May 3) rushed into action.
The man who died had been on a heart-lung machine and his temperature cooled to 68° F., which gave his organs a better chance of surviving after circulation was stopped. Thanks to a foresighted arrangement with the...
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