Machine Keeps Joe Black Alive. Bothell, Wash:-While his wife, Louise, and children, Joey, 3, and Bonnie, 23 months, "visit" him in a hospital-clean room at home, Joe Black lies in bed hooked up to a kidney machine. Black owes his life to the machine- since his kidney do not function and chronic uremia poisoning will prove fatal-- which purifys the waste blood which accumulates in his body

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Title:
Machine Keeps Joe Black Alive. Bothell, Wash:-While his wife, Louise, and children, Joey, 3, and Bonnie, 23 months, "visit" him in a hospital-clean room at home, Joe Black lies in bed hooked up to a kidney machine. Black owes his life to the machine- since his kidney do not function and chronic uremia poisoning will prove fatal-- which purifys the waste blood which accumulates in his body
Description:
[Information from item housing] Kidney...Transplant, 7 C.
Photographer:
United Press International
Name on Item:
UPI
Date:
[ca. July 1970]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue
Subjects:
Body parts
Surgery
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 259 x 233 mm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vh540z738
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
All rights reserved.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title(s) from item.
Preferred Citation:
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue, Boston Public Library
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Boston University, College of Communication, 1977/1978.
Notes (date):
Date from item.
Identifier:
22_10_001333_0001
Barcode:
39999088103476