THE CULTURE OF ORGANS

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Minor bump front top edge. Prior owner's script stamp front and back endpapers. Crisp and clean throuighout. Numerous plates and figures through the text. Lindbergh was an inventor, among his many other attributes. He, of course, is best known for winning the Orteig prize in 1927 by being the first aviator to fly non-stop from New York City to Paris. He became interested in keeping organs alive outside the body when his sister-in-law developed a fatal heart condition in 1930. He worked with Nobel-prize winning Alexis Carrel in the study of organ perfusion. He invented the "Model T" pump, a glass perfusion pump, that is credited with making future heart surgery possible. He and Carrel described an artificial heart in the book and their work with perfusion eventually led to the construction of the first heart-lung machine decades later. 221pp. Size: Medium Demi Octavo. N° de ref. del artículo 015158

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