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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HILL, Luther Leonidas Jr. (1862 – 1946)

1862 – 1946

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1902 CE

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A report of a case of successful suturing of the heart, and table of thirty-seven other cases of suturing by different operations with various terminations, and the conclusions drawn.

HILL, Luther Leonidas Jr. (1862 – 1946)

Hill reported his successful suturing of a knife wound in the left ventricle. His patient, a thirteen-year-old boy recovered. This was the first successful suture of the heart performed in America. Hill argued "that a…