Chimpanzee Heart
notes: label: Description
content: Chimpanzee heart donated by James D. Hardy (1918-2003), professor of surgery at University of Mississippi Medical School. Dr. Hardy performed the first human lung transplant, in 1963. He also attempted the first modern heart transplant when he transplanted the heart of a chimpanzee into Boyd Rush, a comatose and dying patient, on January 24, 1964.
label: Description
content: Ref: James D. Hardy, The World of Surgery 1945–1985: Memoirs of One Participant (1986).
label: Description
content: “James D. Hardy, 84, Dies; Paved the Way for Heart Transplants,” New York Times (Feb. 21, 2003), p. C11.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0657.02
label: accession number
content: 1983.0657
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0657.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: heart, chimpanzee
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 3 in; 12.7 cm x 7.62 cm