Freeze Bathtub
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content: Henry Swan (1913-1996) was a graduate of Amherst College and the Harvard Medical School who, after service with the U.S. Army during World War II, became a professor of surgery at the University of Colorado, in Denver. In the early 1950s, Dr. Swan used this “freeze bathtub” to cool patients for what was then termed “open heart” surgery.
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content: Ref: “Henry Swan, 83, Pioneer in Heart Surgery,” New York Times (Aug. 4, 1996), p. 41.
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: MG.M-12353
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content: 285120
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content: M-12353
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content: freeze bathtub