Word: cecelia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient, Cecelia Bavolek, 18, a freshman at Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was not yet born when Dr. Gibbon began the painstaking job of designing and testing equipment which ultimately led to last week's historic operation. Cecelia had a heart murmur which got worse. Her trouble was diagnosed as a hole in the wall between the two upper quarters (auricles) of her heart. Each minute this caused several quarts of blood returning from her lungs to be promptly shunted back there, wasting a lot of her heart's energy...
Oxygen Added. When Cecelia was in high school, Dr. Gibbon had brought his machine along to the point where the heart part worked fine on dogs. But he was still not ready to try it on a human patient (TIME, Sept. 26, 1949). Then Detroit researchers described a machine which had done part of the work of a man's heart, but not his lungs (TIME...