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Doing Without. Dr. Richard Lillehei says flatly: ''We don't need all the nerves that nature has supplied." As proof, he cites vagotomy in man, and Shumway's dogs. Other surgeons have long since demonstrated how many more supposedly vital parts the body can do without. Thanks largely to medicinal hormones that replace its own supply, the body can function adequately without: the master pituitary gland in the brain, both adrenals, the thyroid, the thymus, spleen, pancreas, gall bladder, one hemisphere of the brain, the gullet, much of the stomach, anywhere from a few inches...
...valve is narrowed; there is a hole in the wall between the ventricles. What Fallot thought was a fourth malformation, enlargement of the right ventricle, is a result of these three. It subsides when they are corrected. Youngest of three noted brothers, sons of Minneapolis Dentist C. I. Lillehei (still active in practice at 70): Heart Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei is 44; James, 38, specializes in lung physiology; Surgeon Richard...
...Gibbon Jr. did the first successful operation in which the patient's circulation and breathing were taken over completely by his heart-lung machine (1953), variant machines appeared at several medical centers. One of the most successful was built at the University of Minnesota, where Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei had already gone so far as to use another human being as a heart-lung substitute in a cross-transfusion hookup. Heart-lung machines are now so good that at least one operation once rated impossible has become standard in many medical centers: total correction of Pallet's tetralogy...
...heart is laid bare for an operation inside it, the surgeon wants the heart to lie relatively still. While a heart-lung machine takes over the patient's circulation and chills his blood, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Morris J. Levy and famed Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei reported to the American College of Surgeons, they shock the heart into fibrillation with low-voltage current. They have left a heart fibrillating for as long as 2¼ hours, and for an average of an hour in 45 cases. At operation's end, they switch the heart back...
...faculty includes Heart Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei. Oceanographer Athelstan Spilhaus, Physiologist Ancel Keys (TIME cover, Jan. 13) and Economist Walter Heller (TIME cover, March 3). Though weak in language and music, the university is strong in medical and physical sciences. Its English Department has long imported such author-teachers as Novelist Robert Penn Warren, currently employs Poet Allen Tate. The average student IQ is only 115 even at the slightly selective (top 60% of high school graduates) liberal arts college, yet Minnesota abounds with ambition. "There's a kind of eagerness to learn here," says one English professor. "They...