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A short item in the March 1950 issue of Asbestos, the industry's trade magazine, reporting newspaper accounts of a heart operation described by Dr. B. N. Carter of the University of Cincinnati at a conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. To increase the blood supply to a diseased heart, surgeons glued the patient's healthy lung to the heart with a paste of powdered asbestos in salt solution "painted" onto both surfaces. The asbestos, Carter said, served as an "irritant" that would cause new tissue and tiny blood channels to form between lung and heart. The operation had been done on three patients after experiments on 54 animals.
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- Asbestos (magazine)
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- March 1950
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- ACL Doc 24171 · asbestosclaims.law/library/24171
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- Published in Asbestos magazine, March 1950, page 11. Public domain: not renewed, as for all 1931-1963 issues of Asbestos (owner's decision for the Asbestos Magazine archive, 2026-10-26).
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Notice from Asbestos Magazine's March, 1950 issue entitled "Asbestos for Heart Trouble." Asbestos paste is used to glue the patients afflicted heart to his healthy lung. The asbestos then acts as an irritant to help new tissues and blood channels from between the lungs and the heart. This procedure has been performed on three patients.
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“Asbestos Magazine, "Asbestos for Heart Trouble".” March 1950. Asbestos (magazine). AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 24171. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/24171.
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