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1973 Press Photo Purvis Brock during Thanskgiving dinner at Charity Hospital

This is an original press photo. Enjoying his first meal by mouth in three months, 50-year-old Purvis L. Brock bites on a piece of roast chicken for his Thanksgiving Day meal at Charity Hospital as Miss Carol Knittle (left), R.N. his nurse, and Dr. Tinker Haralson, a surgical resident at Louisiana State University Surgical Service at Charity, look on. Brock has a new smaller stomach fashioned from his small intestine which replaces his regular stomach, which had to be moved because of three ulcers. The new stomach is a pouch-like substitute.Photo measures 10 x 8.25inches. Photo is dated 11-23-1973.

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Historic Images Part Number: noo00059