Discoveries about the heart, blood vessels and the blood itself. Belongs here: the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood, the Discovery of the Rh Factor, the Invention of the Electrocardiograph and Blood Groups. Does not belong here: a discovery about a disease agent that happens to be identified from a blood sample, such as the isolation of a virus, grouped under virological, parasitological and immunologic discovery because the organizing principle there is the pathogen rather than the blood.
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1. History of Cardiac Surgery (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHistory of cardiac surgery, Blalock-Taussig-Thomas 1944, era
Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, and Vivien Thomas performed the first successful palliative pediatric cardiac operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital on 29 November 1944, in a one-year-old girl with Tetralogy of Fallot. Their work on patient Eileen Saxon was dramatically portrayed by HBO in the 2004 television film Something The Lord Made as the birth of modern cardiac surgery.
History of cardiac surgery, Blalock-Taussig-Thomas 1944, kind
Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, and Vivien Thomas performed the first successful palliative pediatric cardiac operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital on 29 November 1944, in a one-year-old girl with Tetralogy of Fallot. Their work on patient Eileen Saxon was dramatically portrayed by HBO in the 2004 television film Something The Lord Made as the birth of modern cardiac surgery.
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