Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›A new heart is lowered into Philip Barnum's chest 9/20 by University of Michigan surgeons. The Kalamazoo man, 49, received the healthy heart of Herman Opdenhoff, 37, of Waterford, Mich, who died Sept. 20th. The picture was made by U-M Medical Photography Unit near the beginning of Michigan's first heart transplant operation.
A new heart is lowered into Philip Barnum's chest 9/20 by University of Michigan surgeons. The Kalamazoo man, 49, received the healthy heart of Herman Opdenhoff, 37, of Waterford, Mich, who died Sept. 20th. The picture was made by U-M Medical Photography Unit near the beginning of Michigan's first heart transplant operation.
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A new heart is lowered into Philip Barnum's chest 9/20 by University of Michigan surgeons. The Kalamazoo man, 49, received the healthy heart of Herman Opdenhoff, 37, of Waterford, Mich, who died Sept. 20th. The picture was made by U-M Medical Photography Unit near the beginning of Michigan's first heart transplant operation.

United Press International · [ca. September 1968]

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