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A heart-lung machine is developed. The polio rate is at an all-time high: fifty-five thousand people are stricken.
30 Jan.
A cardiac-arrest patient is revived by electric shock.
10 Feb.
The 190-million-volt deuteron ray combats cancer without breaking the skin.
8 Mar.
A mechanical heart keeps a patient alive for eighty minutes.
21 Apr.
Holes in a heart wall are repaired surgically.
19 Sept.
An artificial heart valve is installed in a human.
13 Nov.
An artificial pacemaker is used to regulate heart rhythm.
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