Artificial Heart That Gave Human Pump "Vacation"--The small black box with glass tubes in the center of the picture is the machine which recently took over "complete function of maintaining blood supply to the body" of a 41-year-old patient for 50 minutes at Harper Hospital here while the patient's heart was opened and worked on by surgeons. The mechanical device empties the patient's heart of blood and enables surgeons to use direct vision rather than "blind" sense of touch in heart surgery. This picture was made while surgeons in background tried the operation of the device on a dog. Medical researchers said this was believed the first known instance of a patient's
Artificial Heart That Gave Human Pump "Vacation"--The small black box with glass tubes in the center of the picture is the machine which recently took over "complete function of maintaining blood supply to the body" of a 41-year-old patient for 50 minutes at Harper Hospital here while the patients heart was opened and worked on by surgeons. The mechanical device empties the patients heart of blood and enables surgeons to use direct vision rather than "blind" sense of touch in heart surgery. This picture was made while surgeons in background tried the operation of the device on a dog. Medical researchers said this was believed the first known instance of a patients
Artificial Heart That Gave Human Pump "Vacation"--The small black box with glass tubes in the center of the picture is the machine which recently took over "complete function of maintaining blood supply to the body" of a 41-year-old patient for 50 minutes at Harper Hospital here while the patient's heart was opened and worked on by surgeons. The mechanical device empties the patient's heart of blood and enables surgeons to use direct vision rather than "blind" sense of touch in heart surgery. This picture was made while surgeons in background tried the operation of the device on a dog. Medical researchers said this was believed the first known instance of a patient's
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Mechanical Heart-In foreground of this photo taken in an operating room of Harper Hospital in Detroit is an artificial heart which successfully assumed the functions of a human heart during the operation on a 41-year-old patient's heart. Here doctors test the life-saving device on a dog.
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[Information from item housing] Heart + Heart Surgery
