The morning after their honeymoon night, the wife says to her husband, "you know, You're really a lousy lover!"
The husband replies, "How would you know after only 30 seconds?"
Jarvik artificial heartIn 1982, Dr. William C. DeVries replaced the diseased heart of Barney Clark with the Jarvik-7, the first permanent artificial heart ever used for a human patient. This was the first of a series of five implants of the Jarvik total artificial heart during the next three years. The first patient, 61-year-old Barney Clark, survived for 112 days. Only four others received the Jarvik as a permanent replacement heart. The second, William Schroeder, lived 620 days, dying in Aug 1986 at age 54. Further patients received the artificial heart designed by Robert K. Jarvik only as a temporary device while awaiting heart transplants.[Image: May 1985 LIFE magazine cover showing Bill Schroeder with Dr/ William DeVries.] |
