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Checking for broken wiring in the heart of a patient who uses a battery-powered pacemaker to transmit electrical impulses to the heart's pumping chamb(...)
Checking for broken wiring in the heart of a patient who uses a battery-powered pacemaker to transmit electrical impulses to the heart's pumping chamb(...)

Checking for broken wiring in the heart of a patient who uses a battery-powered pacemaker to transmit electrical impulses to the heart's pumping chamb(...)

Date12/11/1968
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Original Toronto Star caption: Checking for broken wiring in the heart of a patient who uses a battery-powered pacemaker to transmit electrical impulses to the heart's pumping chambers, Dr. Jack Gardiner looks over x-rays Toronto Western Hospital. The impulses are povided by tiny mecury cell batteries connected to the heart s and regular x-rays must be made wiring is intact. The hospital has in more than 100 heart patients. [Incomplete]
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0026373F
Pacemaker that keeps 76-year-old Eli Parsons' heart beating at a regular speed fits into palm of hand
Pacemaker that keeps 76-year-old Eli Parsons' heart beating at a regular speed fits into palm of hand
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Help for the Heart, Wearing nose mask that uses his body heart to warm the air he breathes, heart patient Denis Colwell leaves Toronto's Rumsey Road R(...)
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Clinical researcher Jeannette Koppenstenier demonstrates use of a nebulizer developed for a proposed study of the drug pentamidine. The nebulizer is not available to the general public
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