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Description: Dr. John P. Merrill (left) explains the workings of a then-new machine called an artificial kidney to Richard Herrick (middle) and his brother Ronald (right). The Herrick twin brothers were the subject of the world's first successful kidney transplant, Ronald being the donor.
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