1958 in Science - Medicine

Medicine

  • June 7 - Ian Donald publishes an article in The Lancet which describes the diagnostic use of ultrasound.
  • Engineer Earl Bakken (U.S.) produces the first wearable external artificial pacemaker, for a patient of Dr. C. Walton Lillehei.
  • The first clinical implantations into a human of fully implantable artificial pacemakers takes place at the Karolinska Institute in Solna, Sweden, using a pacemaker designed by Rune Elmqvist and surgeon Åke Senning. The patient, Arne Larsson (1915–2001), survives until age 86.
  • Denis Parsons Burkitt first describes Burkitt's lymphoma.

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