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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.

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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.

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Surgery Team -- Photographs by Werner Wolff for Johns Hopkins Magazine, December 1952. 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.

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The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atreasia. Figure 3. Procedure used. 1945. 1 drawing : pen and ink ; 10.25 X 9.25 in.

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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 theā€¦
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