ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY
Machine Saves Lives In Wellington
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Ndvember 24. A gleaming artificial kidney at the Wellington Public Hospital has already saved lives. Made of stainless steel, fibre-glass, and plastic, the machine cleansed the blood of poisons whica would otherwise kill the patient, medical authorities said today.
The first of its kind in New Zealand, the kidney, in the words of a doctor at the hospital, “looks like a cross between a washing machine and a refrigerator.” The artificial kidney was invented by a Dutchman in 1943, and is made in America. It is used in caies where, through shock in accidents and loss of blood, or in disease, the patient’s own kidneys are not doing their work.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28752, 25 November 1958, Page 5
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