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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HARRISON, John Hartwell (1909 – 1983)

1909 – 1983

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1956 CE

#4257

Successful homotransplantation of the human kidney between identical twins.

MERRILL, John Putnam (1917 – 1986) MURRAY, Joseph Edward (1919 – 2012) HARRISON, John Hartwell (1909 – 1983) & et al.

This was the first successful kidney transplant. The patient, both of whose own kidneys had been removed, was alive 11 months after the transplant. With Warren R. Guild. See No. 4256.1. In 1990 Joseph Murray shared th…