Artificial Kidney
notes: label: Description
content: Willem J. Kolff (1911-2009) was a Dutch physician who in 1943, despite working under the cloud of Nazi occupation, was able to devise the first workable artificial kidney. In 1947, Dr. Kolff brought two rotating drum kidney machines to America: one was installed in New York City, and the other in Montreal. John Merrill and Carl Walters, physicians working at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, designed a modification of that machine known as the Kolff-Brigham artificial kidney. This instrument is of that sort.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Willem Kolff, Doctor Who Invented Kidney and Heart Machines, Dies at 97,” New York Times (Feb. 13, 2009), p. A23.
label: Description
content: “Dr. John Merrill, Transplant Pioneer, Dies in Boating Accident,” New York Times (April 10, 1984), p. B10.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0018.02
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0018.02
label: accession number
content: 2003.0018
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dialysis Machine