Vivien T. Thomas [sound recording] : an oral history / interviewed by Peter D. Olch, Apr. 20, 1967.

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Vivien T. Thomas [sound recording] : an oral history / interviewed by Peter D. Olch, Apr. 20, 1967.

Subject is Dr. Alfred Blalock and his contributions, with emphasis on the Blalock-Taussig procedure.

1 sound reel (1 hr.) : 1/2 track, 3 3/4 ips ; 1/4 inch tape.

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 7603215

National Library of Medicine

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Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964

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Surgeon-in-chief of the hospital and professor and director of the surgery department at the medical school of Johns Hopkins University (1941-1964); developed blue baby operation and treatment for surgical shock. From the description of Alfred M. Blalock papers, 1921-1985. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 60771494 Dr. Blalock was professor of surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. From the description of Cardiovascular surgery, past and prese...

Taussig, Helen B. (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986

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Cardiologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Helen Brooke Taussig : oral history, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122587345 Dr. Taussig, a pioneer in the field of pediatric cardiology, became a member of the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1930 and retired from active teaching in 1969. She received the Gold Heart Award of the American Heart Association in 1963 and was the first woman to be the Association's president. F...

Olch, Peter D. (Peter Dean), 1930-

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Vanderbilt University. School of Medicine

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Thomas, Vivien Theodore, 1910-1985

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Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985) was an American laboratory supervisor who developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease) in the 1940s. He was the assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Thomas was unique in that he did not have any professional education or experience ...

Johns Hopkins University. School of Medicine.

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