Shortly before john h gibbon jrs first birthday his father operated unsuccessfully on a patient with a very large hole in his heart forty nine years later his son became the worlds first surgeon to successfully close an even bigger cardiac defect by using a heart lung machine which had taken him two decades to develop even at family chess games young jack usually beat his father . A dream of the heart the life of john h gibbon jr father of the heart lung machine shumacker harris b 9781564742766 books amazonca. A dream of the heart the life of john h gibbon jr father of the heart lung machine 1st edition by shumacker harris b 1999 hardcover books amazonca. A dream of the heart the life of john h gibbon jr father of the heart lung machine by harris b shumacker 1999 03 04 harris b shumacker books amazonca. Download citation a dream of the heart the life of john h gibbon jr father of the heart lung machine review bulletin of the history of medicine 751 2001 172 173 harris b shumacker jr