The chief heart surgeon of Maimonides Hospital of Brooklyn, largest kosher hospital in the world outside Israel, was revealed today as the inventor of a “booster heart system”–a device being hailed by scientists as the “completion of a century-old surgical dream. “
The inventor is Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz. He showed movies, of the manner in which his new electronic instrument has been tested on 10 dogs, before the American College of Surgeons, where colleagues hailed his invention an “ingenious achievement. “
The new heart booster is considered by scientists as a potential boon to hundreds of thousands of persons whose hearts had been weakened by old age or disease. Only a few electronic and biological problems remain to be solved, scientists declared, before the instrument devised by Dr. Kantrowitz may be applied to human patients.
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