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...immediate threat to life itself, there is now virtually no lower limit to the age at which surgeons will move in. Dr. Gross has operated on 300 premature babies, one of whom weighed only11 Ib. 14 oz. Houston's Dr. Denton A. Cooley. 42, another bold vanguardsman in this field, regularly schedules four operations a day. By now, he has done 450 major operations on infants less than a year old. He will put even these tiny patients on the heart-lung machine if necessary, though he prefers not to. Either way, baby surgery is far safer than...
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