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...Philadelphia's Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr. performed a historic operation in which for 26 minutes a machine he invented replaced the human...
...Mohammed II rolled up his artillery and scaling ladders for one of the most decisive battles ever fought-the final assault on Christian Constantinople. Inside the battered city, Emperor Constantine XI, last of the 1,000-year-old Byzantine line, delivered a speech to his followers which Historian Edward Gibbon was to call "the funeral oration of the Roman Empire...
...last week Dr. Gibbon was satisfied at last with both the heart and lung sections of his machine. At Philadelphia's Jefferson Hospital, Cecelia Bavolek was anesthetized and Dr. Gibbon, with two assisting surgeons, laid bare her heart. They opened the two large veins carrying blood to it, and slipped in plastic tubes which drained the blood away to the artificial heart-lung. There, one pump drew in the blood. Another speeded it to an oxygen chamber, where it flowed over a set of metal grids like the plates in a storage battery. Electronic controls kept the flow rate...
...Look Into the Heart. Cecelia and the machine were hooked together for 45 minutes. For 26 of those minutes the machine breathed for her and pumped her blood. In that time, Dr. Gibbon lifted up her heart and opened it so that the aperture (as big as a half-dollar) between the auricles was in full view. He stitched that up with relative ease since he was working in a bloodless "dry field," although Cecelia's heart kept beating because its muscle was getting a full blood supply. Even more important, so was her brain...
...Said Dr. Gibbon, too camera-shy to pose with the apparatus: "The machine is not a cure-all for all heart conditions. It will probably be used chiefly on patients born with a deformed heart. It can't help coronary artery disease or hearts crippled by diseases of old age. But now, for the first time, it is possible to look into the heart. It's sort of like drying out a well to do some work at the bottom...