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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964)

1899 – 1964

5 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1927 CE

#5630.2

Mechanism and treatment of experimental shock. I. Shock following hemorrhage.

BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964)

First of a series of papers in the Archives. See also No. 5630.3.

1930 CE

#5630.3

Experimental shock. The cause of the low blood pressure produced by muscle injury.

BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964)

Blalock “demonstrated that surgical shock is not due to the elaboration of toxins nor to reflex neurologic mechanisms, but … to decrease in circulating the blood volume” (M.M. Ravitch). He wrote man…

1939 CE

#4771

Myasthenia gravis and tumors of the thymic region. Report of a case in which the tumor was removed.

BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964) & et al.

First deliberate treatment of myasthenia gravis by thymectomy, with M. F. Mason, H. J. Morgan, and S. S. Riven.

1945 CE

#3043

The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia.

BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964) TAUSSIG, Helen Brooke (1898 – 1986)

The “Blalock-Taussig operation” for the relief of congenital defects of the pulmonary artery, Tetralogy of Fallot ("blue baby syndrome"). "The first surgical repair was carried out in 1944 at Johns Hopkins…

1966 CE

#11554

The papers of Alfred Blalock. Edited by Mark Ravitch. 2 vols.

BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964) RAVITCH, Mark Mitchell (1910 – 1989)

This massive (2026-page) work includes a biographical study of Blalock, his complete bibliography, and biographical sketches of co-authors of Blalock's publications.