Guide to Collections Relating to the History of Artificial Internal Organs

museums, archives and libraries

Bakken Library and Museum

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum

Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum

DeWitt Stetten Jr. Museum of Medical Research

Dittrick Medical History Center

Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences

International Center for Artificial Organs and Transplantation

International Center for Medical Technologies

International Museum of Surgical Science

John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center

Mayo Foundation Archives, Mayo Clinic

Medical History Museum of the University of Copenhagen

Medical History Museum of the University of Zurich

Medicinhistoriska Museet

Minnesota Historical Society

Museu Nacional de Historia da Medicina

Museum Boerhaave

Museum of Health Care at Kingston

Mutter Museum

National Library of Medicine

National Museum of American History

National Museum of Health and Medicine

Science Museum of London

Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum, Library and Archives

Thackray Museum

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Medical Museum

University of Utah, Marriott Library, Special Collections

University of Washington

Vanderbilt University

Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine

repository Mayo Foundation Archives, Mayo Clinic
 
address 200 First Street SW; Plummer Building - 3rd Floor, Rochester, Minnesota, 55905
Telephone (507) 284-2585
Fax Number (507) 284-0161
Website
 
Contact Person Alexander E. Lucas, Archivist
email lucas.alexander2@mayo.edu
 
Access and Services The resources of the Archives are open to all members of the Mayo community, and upon approval to others interested in the history of the Mayo Foundation. The collections may be accessed from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday.
 
Abstract The Mayo Foundation Archives documents and supports the life of the Mayo Foundation through its collections, programs, and services. The Archival collections contain official records of the Foundation and its administrative offices, official and unofficial publications, departmental annual reports, committee minutes, records of organizations, as well as personal papers and memorabilia pertaining to the Mayo Foundation and its programs and people.
 
 

Collections

title/date Gibbon-type Heart-lung Bypass Machine, 1954.
 
Collection ID Unaccessioned
 
Quantity One object
 
Biographical Note The heart-lung bypass machine was designed to divert blood flow around the heart to create an operative field free of blood for the time required to repair defects in the heart. It was employed in some of the first successful operations on human hearts conducted with the aid of mechanical pump oxygenator systems. The machine was built largely in 1954 in the Section of Engineering of the Mayo Clinic under the direction of Richard E. Jones. The basic apparatus was originated by Dr. John H. Gibbon, of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and built for him by International Business Machines, Inc. Dr. Gibbons placed the plans and specifications of his apparatus at the disposal of the research and clinical team of the Mayo Clinic. Specifications for the modifications and changes incorporated in the Mayo Clinic apparatus were based on work carried out by Doctors David E. Donald, and Dr. H.J.C. Swan, research assistants, Dr. Harry G. Harshbarger, a fellow in surgery; Dr. John W. Kirklin, head of a section of Surgery; and Dr. Earl H. Wood, of the Section of Physiology of the Mayo Clinic. Work in the experimental laboratory, required before the apparatus could be ready for use on humans, was carried out by Dr. Peter S. Hetzel, research assistant, Dr. Robert T. Patrick, of the Section of Anesthesiology and Intravenous Therapy, and Drs. Kirklin, Wood, Donald and Harshberger. The bypass machine was first employed at the Mayo Clinic on a five year old girl on March 23, 1955. Dr. Kirklin was the cardiac surgeon, assisted by Dr. Harshbarger. The anesthesiologist was Dr. Robert Patrick. Dr. Donald and Jim Fellows operated the heart-lung machine. Drs. Wood and Hetzel collected the physiological data in a separate recording room.
 
Collection Description Gibbon-type heart-lung bypass machine, 1954.
 
Finding Aid None
 
Restrictions None
 
Related Material Mayo Clinic Subject Vertical Files, c. 1900 and ongoing.

title/date Mayo Clinic Subject Vertical Files, c. 1900 and ongoing.
 
Collection ID 580.01/01
 
Quantity 22 linear feet
 
Biographical Note The subject file was initiated in the 1960s by Archives staff.
 
Collection Description This growing collection of materials includes articles, newspaper clippings, photos, correspondence, and reprints. Subjects related to artificial organs include:
  • Gibbon's Heart-Lung Machine (1954);
  • Artificial Larynx (1931), Dr. Charles Sheard;
  • Artificial Kidney Machines (1954- ).
 
Finding Aid None
 
Restrictions None
 
Related Material None

Last reviewed: 27 August 2008
Last updated: 02 March 2007
First published: 01 March 2002
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