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Clamp for the temporary occlusion of the pulmonary artery, devised for Blalock's use by Vivien Thomas and William Longmire, working with the Baltimore surgical supply house Murray Baumgartner & Co.

Third year medical student Reginald Davis holding his son James with Levi Watkins, and Vivien Thomas in front of Johns Hopkins Hospital Administration Building.

A recording from the heart sound laboratory at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, recorded in 1955. Video is a real-time spectrograph of the heart sound, EKG and respiration recordings from playback of the digitized audio file in Izotope RX.

Vivien Thomas and assistants operating on laboratory dog at Vanderbilt University circa 1930s. 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 2.5 x 3.5 in.

Description: A portrait of Vivien Theodore Thomas, the pioneering African-American surgical technician who helped develop the famous blue baby operation, was commissioned by his many colleagues and trainees at Johns Hopkins and was presented at the…

Digital image files (TIFF and JPEG) maintained by Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives.