A transplant operation: Edward Falk, recipient of a transplanted heart and both lungs, after the operation on 25 December 1969. Photograph by Associated Press, 1969.

Date:
1969
Reference:
587356i
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Description

Operation performed by Dr C. Walton Lillehei (not in photograph)

Publication/Creation

London : Associated Press, 1969.

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 20.5 x 25.4 cm

Lettering

Transplant patent Edward Falk, 43, of Newton, N.J., is attended at New York Hospital ... after operation Dec. 25 in which he received a heart and both lungs ... Lettering typed on attached press-release and stamped on verso

Reference

Wellcome Collection 587356i

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