Word: philadelphia
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...Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 9:05 p.m., CBS). Eugene Ormandy conducting...
...Surgery of the heart has probably reached the limits set by Nature to all surgery: no new method, and no new discovery, can overcome the natural difficulties that attend a wound of the heart." So in 1896 wrote eminent British Surgeon Stephen Paget. A few weeks ago at Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital, eminent U.S. Surgeon Charles Philamore Bailey walked into a cluttered, unpretentious operating room which has attracted visiting medical men from all over the world. Dr. Bailey, at 46 one of the most daring innovators in heart surgery, was ready once again to push "the limits...
Finger & Knife. Philadelphia's Bailey was impatient to touch down. He had strong personal reasons: as a boy of twelve, he had seen his father, a broker, die at 42 of a lung hemorrhage, the direct result of heart disease. After what Bailey considers less than average preparation for such a post (New Jersey's Rutgers University, Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, a year's internship, four years of general practice in Lakewood, N.J., two years of intensive lung surgery), he was placed in charge of chest surgery at Hahnemann in 1940. He is now professor...
...finger inside a human heart to open a scarred mitral valve in June 1945. Through an accident (no fault of Bailey's) the patient bled to death. Misfortune beset him in three other cases. Not until June 10, 1948 did he have a "good risk" patient at Philadelphia's Episcopal Hospital. Mrs. Melville Ward, 24, of East Orange, N.J., an invalid for five years, had been told she had six months to live. Bailey slipped his finger through the "tail" of the auricle (the "appendage"), slid a knife along it and slit the joined valve leaves apart. Eight...
...eight minutes. Moreover, under hypothermia the heart is especially likely to lose its regular beat and flutter uselessly (fibrillate), which may cause death. What was still needed was a pumping device to take over the functions of both heart and lungs for as long as necessary to operate. At Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, Surgeon John Heysham Gibbon Jr. had been working on such a device for almost 20 years. Bailey himself was experimenting with pumps when he hit on the chilling technique. In October 1952 Detroit's Dodrill announced that he had used a pump developed...