King’s evil
An old term for tuberculosis of the lymph nodes in the neck. Also known as scrofula.
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American cardiovascular surgeon (1920-2004) who improved and applied the heart-lung machine to open heart surgery. Dr. Kirklin refined the Gibbon heart-lung machine (an apparatus developed by John H. Gibbon) to circulate blood while the heart was stopped during surgery. In the 1950’s, Dr. Kirklin did heart operations with the improved machine. Dr. Kirklin also used […]