[ExI] baby fae

[William Flynn Wallace]

Huh?  This is in response to what?   bill w

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 3:55 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> The theory at the time was that a baby’s immune system is not fully formed
> at birth and could be trained to some extent.  Baby Fae was given an
> outside chance than the baboon heart would last long enough to keep her
> alive until a suitable human donor could be found.
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> My memories of that are 36 years old, but I remember it well because my
> former college roommate was in medical school at Loma Linda at the time,
> and later worked with Dr. Bailey.  I was starting my career.  I remember
> how the men would gather around the newspaper first thing in the morning,
> cheer when it was unrolled and they heard Baby Fae was holding on another
> day.  I remember seeing men weep for her on the day she died.
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> The baboon had type AB blood, Fae had type 0.  They knew it was a
> temporary and they knew it was a longshot.  The lessons learned that fall
> paved the way for later successful cross-species transplants.
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> If you really can’t see why that experiment has any value, don’t worry,
> Dr. Bailey wouldn’t want you as a patient either.
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> spike
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