1908

Alexis Carrel performs vascular anastomosis to save life of Mary Lambert, daughter of Belleevue Hospital surgeon Adrean Lambert, born with melaena neuonatorum (bleeding from nose, anus, and mouth). At request of the infant’s father, he transfused by anastomosis father’s arm to daughter’s leg, viz, “He teased out the vessels, and using the technique he’d been practicing on all manner of animals, he fastened the two together.” Mary’s bleeding stopped and she survived. This was the first successful use of vascular anastomosis to save a human life (Chaddock, 183-184).