ARTIFICIAL HEART., Cooley, Denton; and Michael DeBakey.

ARTIFICIAL HEART.
Cooley, Denton; and Michael DeBakey. Archive of 14 items that provide perspective on the Cooley-DeBakey feud about the development of an artificial heart and its implantation in humans, including 6 offprints, 4 photographs, a book and other items, most signed. Includes: 1) The Texas tornado [cover title is Toward an artificial heart, with a painted portrait of DeBakey], 1965, pp. 46-55, IN: Time (issue of May 28, 1965); 2) Denton Cooley, First implantation of cardiac prosthesis for staged total replacement of the heart. 1969, pp. 252-263, Offprint from Transactions. American Society for Artificial Organs. April 21-22, 1969. SIGNED BY COOLEY; 3) Michael DeBakey et al., Orthotopic cardiac prosthesis: Preliminary experiments in animals with biventricular artificial heart, [May 15, 1969], PREPRINT; 4) Michael DeBakey et al., Orthotopic cardiac prosthesis: Preliminary experiments in animals with biventricular artificial heart, [June 1969], OFFPRINT; 5) Denton Cooley, Domingo Liotta et al., Orthotopic cardiac prosthesis for two-staged cardiac replacement, [November] 1969, offprint. SIGNED BY COOLEY; 6) Thomas Thompson, The Texas tornado vs. Dr. Wonderful [cover title is A Bitter Feud: Two great surgeons at war over the human heart, with cover photo of the two surgeons' masked faces], pp. 62B-74, IN: LIFE (issue of April 10, 1969); 7) Thomas Thompson, Hearts: Of Surgeons and Transplants, Miracles and Disasters along the Cardiac Frontier. New York 1971, dw, 304pp. First edition; 8) Glossy AP Wirephoto (January 26, 1966) with caption "SPARE HUMAN HEART 'ALMOST READY' -- "'Within a year,' says Dr. Michael D. DeBakey...a substitute heart, such as the one he's shown exhibiting here today, will be ready for use in a heart patient's chest.'" 9) Glossy AP Wirephoto (April 7, 1969) with caption "MECHANICAL TO HUMAN HEART--Dr. Denton Cooley, left, holds a mechanical heart as he tells newsmen about the implantation of a mechanical heart into the chest of Haskell Karp..."; 10) 5 x 7 black and white photograph of Michael DeBakey in a business suit. SIGNED BY DEBAKEY; 11) 5 x 7 black and white photograph of Denton Cooley in a scrub suit looking at the viewer. SIGNED BY COOLEY; 12) William C. Roberts, Michael Ellis DeBakey: A conversation with the editor. 1997. Offprint. AUTOGRAPHED BY DEBAKEY AND INSCRIBED BY ROBERTS: "To Bruce Fye, with deep respect and warm regards. Bill Roberts"; 13) William C. Roberts, Denton Arthur Cooley: A conversation with the editor. 1997. Offprint. AUTOGRAPHED BY COOLEY AND INSCRIBED BY ROBERTS: "To Bruce Fye, with deep respect and warm regards. Bill Roberts"; 14) Printout of web version of Lawrence K. Altman, The feud, New York Times (November 27, 2007);

This unique archive, which includes several signed items, provides valuable insight into the origins of the "feud" that resulted from Denton Cooley implanting an artificial heart without discussing his plan with DeBakey. The very rare reprint of DeBakey's article reveals his desire to document his own efforts as soon as possible after Cooley reported his operation in April, 1969. The key stages in the development and early clinical application of an artificial heart are summarized in Westaby and Bosher, Landmarks in Cardiac Surgery (Oxford 1997) 279-294.