1. Volume 55, Issue 1, Pages 326-333 (January 1999)
James A. Shannon and the beginnings of the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism of the National Institutes of Health 
Thomas J. Kennedy 
Kidney International 
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2. Figure 1
Editorial in The New York Times, June 16, 1948, commenting on Congressional action on the National Heart Act.
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3. Figure 2
News item in The News York Times, June 18, 1948, reporting President Truman's signing of the National Heart Act.
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4. Figure 3
News item in The New York Times, April 7, 1949, reporting the appointment of Dr. James A. Shannon to be the associate director for Intramural Research of the National Heart Institute.
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5. Figure 4
Photograph of several “charter members”—Robert W. Berliner (2), Jack Orloff (5), Ernest Cotlove (9), Thomas J. Kennedy, Jr. (8)—of the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, with James A. Shannon (3), Robert L. Bowman (12), James G. Hilton (1), and Saul J. Farber (14), spouses, and others.
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