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The artificial lung that saved her life is shown to 19-year-old Julie Reading of Bay Ridges by Dr. Joel Cooper, a chest surgeon at Toronto General Hos(...)
The artificial lung that saved her life is shown to 19-year-old Julie Reading of Bay Ridges by Dr. Joel Cooper, a chest surgeon at Toronto General Hos(...)

The artificial lung that saved her life is shown to 19-year-old Julie Reading of Bay Ridges by Dr. Joel Cooper, a chest surgeon at Toronto General Hos(...)

Date7/8/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: The artificial lung that saved her life is shown to 19-year-old Julie Reading of Bay Ridges by Dr. Joel Cooper, a chest surgeon at Toronto General Hospital. Her lungs were plugged with blood clots last month, doctors kept her breathing for 64 hours on the new kind of substitute lung. [ncomplete]
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0026575F
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