University Hospital - Open-heart Surgery

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A NY Channel 5 cameraman films an operation (not in view) from above. A doctor, nurses and additional television crew members are in view. One of a series of photos from an open-heart surgery performed in 1958 on Miss Mabel Chin by Dr. Jere Lord, Jr. The operation was filmed by NY Channel 5 and televised on May 6, 1958. Classification numbers for the entire group of photos: 022 .C .55-.65, all in File #22.

New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital - Skin Graft

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Physicians taking a skin graft using Thiersch's method, ca. 1889. The man with the razor is Theodore Dunham, assisted by Franz Torek (surgeon to the Babies Ward). Information below from Registration Record: This photograph appears in the journal "The Post Graduate" (303), with the caption "Taking the Grafts." The notation on the back states that it is Thiersch's method of taking the grafts and the surgeon with the Razor is Theodore Dunham assisted by Franz Torek, surgeon to the Babies'Ward.