Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-03-01 | Page 1 | 'Blue Baby' Operation Saves Life of Puppy

I p sv v. v V T 7 1 iLk I f j. j j i. i i p 4 p g gY Y f fr N r 1 r f k fi Y I err I r i AP AP Figure ure in in Rare C Canine S Surgery Caesar left first do dog dOb to undergo blue bab baby operation in experiments poses with Doll cocker spaniel whose V lOse life life was saved Saturday by I operation Dolls Doll's mistress Helen Bolte at right I r thA Operation Saves Li Life of Puppy CHICAGO March larch 1 UP UP-A UP A cocker spaniel named Doll romped playfully Saturday after a famed surgeon whose research research research re re- re- re search with dogs led to the blue baby operation performed similar surgery on the jet black puppy Dr Willis J. J Potts who with Drs Stanley Gibson and Sidney Smith announced the perfected blue baby operation in 1946 said Dolls Doll's operation completes the cycle Potts whose research on dogs has helped save the lives of children said we started on dogs to save the lives of babies and now we have used the same operation to save the thel l life e of a dog Potts associate professor proCessor of surgery at Northwestern University University University Uni Uni- was contacted when the dogs dog's owner Miss 1 Helen Bolte noticed Doll appeared listless I Potts told Miss 1 Bolte to bring the puppy to see him him at the I Northwestern clinic I After a diagnosis and consultation with Gibson the doctors said the dog had a strong heart murmur I The doctors said it was the same condition that appears in babies about once in births baths but they said they had never heard of the condition in dogs Potts said the operation was just about the same as the theone theone theone I one he had performed to save the lives of so many youngsters The puppy lost a great amount of blood and had to be given a I I transfusion from another dog