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...brought Jarvik and DeVries together was Dutch-born Surgeon and Medical Engineer Willem Kolff, 72, who calls himself "the oldest artificial organist." The founder of Utah's artificial-organ program got his start in the field by creating the first artificial kidney, a crude dialysis machine he pieced together from cellophane and other simple materials he found in Nazi-occupied Holland in the early 1940s. He designed his first artificial heart in 1957 when he was at the Cleveland Clinic. It sustained...
...heart that Barney Clark received thus represented more than a quarter of a century of research. Like Kolff's original device, it is powered by air, compressed by an external electric pump. Two 6-ft.-long air tubes, which emerge from beneath the rib cage, connect the heart to the pump and to emergency tanks of compressed air and other equipment, all of which are stored on a cart. Total weight of the awkward external system...
...cost of the heart: $9,050, plus $7,400 for the drive system. But Clark's equipment was donated by the manufacturer, Kolff Medical, Inc., and his doctors waived their fees. Had Clark done well enough to leave the hospital, he probably would have spent $2,700 to equip his home with ramps, wall outlets for air and other fittings. Then there was the hospital bill. At the time of Clark's death, it exceeded a whopping $200,000, to be paid by donations and U.M.C. endowment funds...
...chocolate-chip cookies that he had brought from home. An equally exhausted Dr. Robert Jarvik, who designed the artificial heart, which is called the Jarvik-7, wandered down to the cafeteria for a soft drink and chatted with reporters. DeVries' and Jarvik's mentor, Dr. Willem Kolff, who invented the artificial kidney and heads Utah's artificial-organs program, celebrated the operation's completion at home with champagne...
...married, Clement thought it might be appropriate to hold the ceremony on the Staten Island Ferry (where both her fiancé and his father work as deck hands). Having received the necessary clearance, the couple were married last week on the bridge deck of the good ship Cornelius G. Kolff shortly after the boat left Staten Island on its 25-minute run to Manhattan. The cost of the love boat was modest indeed: members of the wedding and guests were charged the standard 25? ferry fare...