ALFRED BLALOCK (1899-1964)

Visit of Dr. Alfred Blalock

gathering of doctors, students and nurses. Dr. Blalock is the third notable occupant of the Chair of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. First was William Stewart Halstead, the centenary of whose birth, celebrated by the Royal Society of Medicine on May 20th, was the reason for Dr. Blalock's visit to England. The second was Dean Lewis, and he was succeeded by Dr. Blalock who came to Hopkins from...

Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery. Vivien Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock

is part of that broader field of experimental pathology to which all medical sciences belong". This is reflected in the thirty important years Hardy spent as Chairman and Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Mississipi in Jackson, where he divided his activities among surgical practice, teaching, and research. The period of his memoirs saw advances in surgical pathology a...

Alfred Goldberg

system, where non-sexualised images, e.g. from clothes ads or even from nudist beaches get the green light, erotic posing counts as amber, and material focusing on genitals or actual acts of child abuse gets the red light. “We train the patient to move only in the green area,” Ahlers told the paper. “Amber means: Caution! Potential danger for children and for myself! Risky behaviour on the verg...

Infection of modified Blalock shunts.

A left-sided interposition graft (modified Blalock-Taussig anastomosis) was constructed with polytetrafluoroethylene in a three month old child with tetralogy of Fallot. This shunt thrombosed and a replacement shunt became the site of chronic Pseudomonas infection. The second anastomosis was excised and a third interposition graft was inserted on the right side because the anatomy was unsuitabl...

Alfred Sheen