Barnum's Condition Now Good

Philip T. Barnum, 49, of Kalamazoo, Michigan's first lleart transplant recipiënt, was listed in "good" condition for the first time today by doctors at University Hospital where the operation was performed last Friday. Up until today nis condition had been listed asj "fair." Tn a report issued at 11 a.m., U-M doctors said "Mr. Philip T. Barnum is in good candition today with temperature, pulse' asd blood pressure all normal. "He is able to sit up in bed and had cereal and orange: iuice for breakfast. He has been placed on a soft diet for future meals." Yesterday hei' was restricted to a liquid diet. Barnum received the heart of Herman Opdenhoff, 37, of Pontiac in an operation that lasted iive hours and 28 minutes. Firstin the state and second in the Midwest, the local transplant was 50th in the world. The first in the Midwest and 4Cth in the world was performed on Sept. 4 in Cleveland with Dcllett Lawson Sr. 50, of Akron, OMo, receiving the heart of a 25 year-old woman. Surgeons at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Tex., have performed the largest number of transplants of any surgical team. Of the 15 persons who have received new hearts in Houston, nine are still a live.