1. Suturing of Penetrating Wounds to the Heart in the Nineteenth Century: The Beginnings of Heart Surgery 
Vladimir Alexi-Meskishvili, MD, PhD, Wolfgang Böttcher, ECCP 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 92, Issue 5, Pages (November 2011)
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2. Fig 1
Axel Hermansen Cappelen. Reproduced by kind permission of Kjetil Søreide, MD, PhD, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway.
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3. Fig 2
Title page of an article containing the first report of a heart suture by Axel Hermansen Cappelen [18].
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4. Fig 3 Ludwig Rehn (from the authors' collection).
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5. Fig 4
Title page of the first report of successful heart suture performed by Ludwig Rehn [23] (from the authors' collection).
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6. Fig 5
Title page of an article reporting the first successful suture of the left ventricle by Antonio Parrozzani [24].
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