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A medical first was performed by Dr. William Lougheed, a neurosurgeon and assistant professor at the University of Toronto, when he took vein from a woman's leg and transplanted it into her head to replace a blocked artery that caused a stroke. He's shown with the type of microscope used in surgery.
A medical first was performed by Dr. William Lougheed, a neurosurgeon and assistant professor at the University of Toronto, when he took vein from a woman's leg and transplanted it into her head to replace a blocked artery that caused a stroke. He's shown with the type of microscope used in surgery.

A medical first was performed by Dr. William Lougheed, a neurosurgeon and assistant professor at the University of Toronto, when he took vein from a woman's leg and transplanted it into her head to replace a blocked artery that caused a stroke. He's shown with the type of microscope used in surgery.

Date1/6/1970
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Joseph Hampl is living proof of the success achieved in an operation two months ago in which a section of vein from his leg was transplanted to replac(...)
Joseph Hampl is living proof of the success achieved in an operation two months ago in which a section of vein from his leg was transplanted to replac(...)
2/16/1973
Job well done:L Dr. Marvin Tile, head of orthopedic surgery at Sunnybrook Medical Centre, talks to 19-year-old Kevin Hansen, a student from Lowa, after an operation on Kevin's smashed hip socket that likely saved him from life in a wheelchair. Tile is one of North America's leading authorities on hip-socket surgery, performed at only a few hospitals in North America.
Job well done:L Dr. Marvin Tile, head of orthopedic surgery at Sunnybrook Medical Centre, talks to 19-year-old Kevin Hansen, a student from Lowa, after an operation on Kevin's smashed hip socket that likely saved him from life in a wheelchair. Tile is one of North America's leading authorities on hip-socket surgery, performed at only a few hospitals in North America.
11/18/1983
Stroke Prevention: Dr. Bradley Strauss shows Magnus Mackay a stent like those inserted in his carotid arteries.
Stroke Prevention: Dr. Bradley Strauss shows Magnus Mackay a stent like those inserted in his carotid arteries.
2/3/1998
Heredity transmits defects in the way the body produces or uses cholesterol, the blood fat that can clog arteries and cause strokes. Bev Nisenboim tak(...)
Heredity transmits defects in the way the body produces or uses cholesterol, the blood fat that can clog arteries and cause strokes. Bev Nisenboim tak(...)
5/2/1972
Unusual surgery: Fred Richards of Welland, who lost most of his right hand in an industrial accident, has been given an unusual skin flap from his forearm and a transplanted toe as a finger
Unusual surgery: Fred Richards of Welland, who lost most of his right hand in an industrial accident, has been given an unusual skin flap from his forearm and a transplanted toe as a finger
2/11/1985
He's a leg man. Greg Crouse has on of the best pairs of legs in town - unfortunately they're not his, Greg took a break for lunch yesterday before he (...)
He's a leg man. Greg Crouse has on of the best pairs of legs in town - unfortunately they're not his, Greg took a break for lunch yesterday before he (...)
9/9/1980
Dr. Beverly Walters, a former opera writer, has put in 10 arduous years of training while raising a family, to become Toronto's first woman neurosurgeon
Dr. Beverly Walters, a former opera writer, has put in 10 arduous years of training while raising a family, to become Toronto's first woman neurosurgeon
11/12/1987
Plastic cornea implant, the first of its type in Canadian medical history, was performed at Scarborough General Hospital yesterday on a man who was bl(...)
Plastic cornea implant, the first of its type in Canadian medical history, was performed at Scarborough General Hospital yesterday on a man who was bl(...)
11/6/1968
Stroke victim: Specialists told Dr. Douglas Dalgleish he'd be blind on the left side and never walk again after his massive stroke, but he proved them wrong and has resumed his medical practice.
Stroke victim: Specialists told Dr. Douglas Dalgleish he'd be blind on the left side and never walk again after his massive stroke, but he proved them wrong and has resumed his medical practice.
5/14/1984
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
3/10/1970
Courageous victim: Marg Lawson, 22, her mother at her bedside in Sunnybrook Medical Centre, said yesterday she was feeling great after surgery and feeling lucky not to have been hurt worse in a bike accident that left her paralyzed in both legs
Courageous victim: Marg Lawson, 22, her mother at her bedside in Sunnybrook Medical Centre, said yesterday she was feeling great after surgery and feeling lucky not to have been hurt worse in a bike accident that left her paralyzed in both legs
7/7/1983
Madam Johnson's present, or, The best instructions for young women, in useful and universal knowledge : with a summary of the late Marriage Act, and instructions how to marry pursuant thereto : digested under the following heads. I. An estimate of the expenses of a family in the middling station of life. II. The art and terms of carving, fish, fowl, and flesh. III. A bill of fare for every month in the year for dinner and supper, and also for extraordinary occasions. IV. The young woman's guide to knowledge. V. A new English spelling dictionary. VI. The compleat market-woman. VII. The cook's guide for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish. VIII. Pickling, pastry, and confectionary
Madam Johnson's present, or, The best instructions for young women, in useful and universal knowledge : with a summary of the late Marriage Act, and instructions how to marry pursuant thereto : digested under the following heads. I. An estimate of the expenses of a family in the middling station of life. II. The art and terms of carving, fish, fowl, and flesh. III. A bill of fare for every month in the year for dinner and supper, and also for extraordinary occasions. IV. The young woman's guide to knowledge. V. A new English spelling dictionary. VI. The compleat market-woman. VII. The cook's guide for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish. VIII. Pickling, pastry, and confectionary
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