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Forssmann

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[fawrs-mahn, -muhn, fohrs-, fawrs-mahn] / ˈfɔrs mɑn, -mən, ˈfoʊrs-, ˈfɔrs mɑn /

noun

  1. Werner 1904–79, German surgeon: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.


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Werner Forssmann had a plan — a plan he knew his superiors would never approve.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2017

An appalled colleague fought to remove the catheter but was unable to do so before Forssmann pushed the catheter all the way into his heart and proved the procedure wouldn’t kill a patient.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2017

Dunn moves on to more recent, more astounding advances, like German surgeon Werner Forssmann feeding a catheter up his own arm vein and into his heart in 1929.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2015

The therapeutical value of such practices is not yet known, but Dr. Forssmann thinks that such probing can introduce certain medicaments directly to the heart better than the blood will carry them there.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the Auguste Viktoria Hospital, Eberswalde, Germany, a Dr. Forssmann, assistant surgeon, opened a vein at his elbow and into it worked a long, soft rubber probe through the circuitous passages to his heart.

From Time Magazine Archive