Dr. Alfred Blalock
ca. 1940
Dr. Alfred Blalock and his surgical research assistant, Vivien Thomas, studied the effects of surgical shock while at Vanderbilt. After moving to Johns Hopkins in 1941, Blalock and Thomas worked with Dr. Helen Taussig to apply their findings to a new surgical therapy for tetralogy of Fallot, or blue baby syndrome.
EBL.0990: Alfred Blalock collection