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This has been done in many hospitals with cabinet-type pacemakers weighing up to 50 Ibs. At first the current was applied externally, to the chest skin. Then Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, famed open-heart surgeon of the University of Minnesota Hospitals, got the idea of implanting the electrode directly in the muscle of the heart wall...
...approaches to the heart: at Montefiore Hospital in The Bronx, surgeons wired a 67-year-old man by slipping a thin electrical cable into an incision in his neck and working it through a vein into the heart. In some cases, surgeons have plunged a hollow needle through the chest wall and into the heart itself; when a fine wire, passed through the needle, is in place, they withdraw the needle...
...Fairman's case, the doctors did not dare open the chest to sew the electrode into the heart muscle because they doubted that the patient would survive surgery...
...from the island, against 8-ft. waves and a 60-mile-an-hour wind, bucked an old World War II amphibious craft manned by four cowled monks and a coast guardsman. When St. Angus finally got a line to them, the crew hauled up a tea chest of staples. It was no ham or roast goose Christmas dinner, for the monks who brought it were austere Trappists, who eat only bread, butter, cheese and fruit, but there were some cans of beer (kept for monastery guests), for St. Angus...
...wartime radioman in an R.A.F. bomber, led husky Brother Joseph, ex-Barrister Brother Thomas and wiry Father Anthony (an R.A.F. squadron leader in the Battle of Britain and D.S.O. winner) once again into the gale. This time there was also a bottle of rum in the tea chest...