Forssmann
Americannoun
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An appalled colleague fought to remove the catheter but was unable to do so before Forssmann pushed the catheter all the way into his heart and proved the procedure wouldn’t kill a patient.
From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2017
Werner Forssmann had a plan — a plan he knew his superiors would never approve.
From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2017
Dunn moves on to more recent, more astounding advances, like German surgeon Werner Forssmann feeding a catheter up his own arm vein and into his heart in 1929.
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2015
Secretly one night Dr. Forssmann punctured a vein in his arm and persuaded a fellow resident to start working a tube into it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At the Auguste Viktoria Hospital, Eberswalde, Germany, a Dr. Forssmann, assistant surgeon, opened a vein at his elbow and into it worked a long, soft rubber probe through the circuitous passages to his heart.
From Time Magazine Archive
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