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...member of the audience called Chávez' institute "the heart capital of the world." Baltimore's famed Pediatrician Helen Taussig, whose researches made possible the "blue baby" operation, said: "It is [Chávez] who made this a great institute ... a Mecca for all young people who want to study the heart. We can rejoice when we have the opportunity to come here ourselves...
When Child Specialist Helen Taussig and Surgeon Alfred Blalock (after years of experiments on animals) worked out a solution to the blue-baby problem, their proposal looked daring indeed: to revamp the arteries close to the heart so that more blood is pumped to the lungs to get its full quota of oxygen. It worked. Within a year, 80 of the blue boys and blue girls operated on at Johns Hopkins went home a healthy pink, and were soon able to run and play as if nothing had ailed them. The children thus saved from crippling and early death...
Shortly before Election Day, surgeons at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore performed their thousandth "blue baby" operation. The technique, which has saved many more thousands of lives elsewhere, was developed at Johns Hopkins by two famed doctors, Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig, in a long course of experimenting on dogs. The dogs got the same care, the same anesthesia, as would a human patient. Not all the dogs died-if they had, the experiment would have been a failure. For example, Anna, now a laboratory pet, is as well today as 3^-year-old Gene Haskins...
...closest competition. In the number two contest Reese and Bramhall lost in three sets, as their smashing net game couldn't overcome the steadiness of their rivals. But in the number three doubles, the net game of Bacon and Hatton was good enough to beat Bowdoin's Tiny Taussig and Dick...
Daughter of the late, famed Harvard economist, Helen Taussig was a Radcliffe tennis champion, still eats and swims heartily, lavishes her affection on a large, undisciplined mongrel named Spot. She took over the Johns Hopkins Children's Heart Clinic in 1930, is so deeply absorbed in her work that she seldom gets home until 9 p.m. A major aversion: the press, ever since she felt that the recent wave of publicity on her work with blue babies had hurt her professionally (to the medical mind, publicity often ranks high among the more loathsome diseases...