From: "Charles Gavette" <chaosmosis-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Kidneys/Urban Myth
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 12:29:10 PST


Well, the kidneys should be kept as untraumatized as possible. The 
submersion in ice is so that harmful trauma chemicals will not disturb 
the harvesting process, allay bleeding, and also keep the integrity of 
the tissues of the kidney. These things were learned a long time ago in 
Nazi concentration camp experiments. The patient being sedated can last 
a long time in ice. If you go to China with enough money, and need a 
liver, they will arrange for a prisoner to be shot so that you can have 
his liver. The poaching of bears in, for instance, the Pocono Mountains 
of Pennsylvania is still going on too, the gall bladders bring heavy 
lettuce on the black market. It is for its content of ursodeoxycholic 
acid, a very real medicine that is used against liver cirrhosis and 
cancer in China and in the U.S.

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