Receives New Heart--Mrs. Beth White Brunk, 49, of Houston received the heart of Mrs. Betty O'Neal of Corsicana, Texas Monday night. Doctors said it was the first woman-to-woman transfer of the organ. Mrs. Brunk was reported doing well a few minutes after the operation, the eighty heart transplant done at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.

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Receives New Heart--Mrs. Beth White Brunk, 49, of Houston received the heart of Mrs. Betty O'Neal of Corsicana, Texas Monday night. Doctors said it was the first woman-to-woman transfer of the organ. Mrs. Brunk was reported doing well a few minutes after the operation, the eighty heart transplant done at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.

Associated Press · [ca. July 1968]

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CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Heart Transplant

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