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Ross, Sir (James) Keith

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Early valve publicity. Illustration material etc.

Cartoon about surgery, Evening Standard

Tiny Heart Valve Variant Takes Up Less Space, cutting from the World Medicine

Booster Heart Replaces Failing Ventricle, cutting from World Medicine

A New Aortic Ball-Valve Prosthesis, press cutting

Second-Hand Heart Valves, World Medicine, 1/15, pp. 19-24

Plastic Mitral Valve for Britain, press cutting

Advertisement of the "Portex Hammersmith Mitral Valve" in World Medicine

Nauheim, Bad, "Advantages of Aortic Homograft Implants", International Medical Tribune of Great Britain

Beck, C S, "The Direct Approach to the Heart", Surgical Clinics of North America, 49/3, pp. 643-648

X-ray of Ross' first triple Starr replacement

Photograph of a Bjork-Shiley valve

Cartoon with surgeons, commented on by Ross and his daughter

The Epic of the Heart Beat

Meier, B, "Designer of Faulty Heart Valve Seeks Redemption in New Device", The New York Times

Meier, B, "Designer of Faulty Heart Valve Seeks Redemption in New Device", The New York Times

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