Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back home in North Carolina, Pet-Lover Graham keeps a horse, a cat, a canary, a parakeet, a Great Pyrenees dog named Belle Shazzar...
...blood to flow inefficiently back and forth. The University of Minnesota's team of heart repairmen, headed by Dr. Clarence Walton Lillehei, needed a "dry field" (the heart drained of blood) if they were to operate successfully. A Toronto-born colleague, Dr. Gilbert Campbell, 31, offered them the dog's lung to attain this. (He had already used lungs in 100 experimental operations with animals...
...hour before Calvin was to be ready, surgeons anesthetized a big dog (what breed, if any, is a secret) and removed an entire lung. The animal was then painlessly put to death with more anesthetic...
Lillehei and Richard Varco clamped off the great veins carrying the blood toward the heart, inserted a tube, and led the blood out to the input tube of the dog's lung. Inside its cylinder the lung was kept supplied with fresh oxygen. As the boy's blood coursed through the lung tissue, it gave up carbon dioxide and picked up fresh oxygen. Then it fell to the bottom of the cylinder. From the pool that formed there, another tube led the blood to a pump which boosted it back to Patient Richmond's aorta-the great...
Calvin Richmond was hooked up with the dead dog's lung for 20 minutes. The surgeons spent 15 of these performing delicate repair work inside the heart, which would have been impossible if they had been operating in a surging pool of blood...