{"id":1902,"date":"2009-08-07T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T17:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/08\/a-heart-valve-tree\/"},"modified":"2009-08-07T10:45:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T17:45:43","slug":"a-heart-valve-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/07\/a-heart-valve-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"A Heart Valve Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ohsu-hca.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/heart-valves-grow-on-trees.html\" target=\"_blank\">from Oregon Health &amp; Science University<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/ohsu-hca.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/heart-valves-grow-on-trees.html\" style=\"color: #1b0431; text-decoration: underline\" target=\"_blank\">Heart valves grow on trees<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_YMA-RMSS7Jk\/SndN5zNAglI\/AAAAAAAAA8o\/dyagW3IjdwU\/s1600-h\/starr_edwards_valve_tree.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" style=\"color: #956839; text-decoration: underline\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_YMA-RMSS7Jk\/SndN5zNAglI\/AAAAAAAAA8o\/dyagW3IjdwU\/s400\/starr_edwards_valve_tree.jpg\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365843136427885138\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-color: initial; border-width: initial; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 322px; height: 400px; border-style: none\" \/><\/a>At the time of the receipt of the\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Howard J. Stroud Papers\u00a0<\/span>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohsu.edu\/library\/hom\/findingaids\/2007-015_HowardStroudPapers_guide.pdf\" style=\"color: #473624; text-decoration: underline\" target=\"_blank\">Accession 2007-015<\/a>), we posted a short\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ohsu-hca.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/new-donation-howard-stroud-papers.html\" style=\"color: #473624; text-decoration: underline\" target=\"_blank\">notice<\/a>\u00a0in this space. Beyond creating a basic inventory of the collection, not much processing has gone on in the ensuing months.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I was poking through the photographs looking for interesting images of heart research here in Oregon&#8211;since Stroud was director of the\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Oregon Heart Association<\/span>\u00a0for decades. The collection does not disappoint. Along with numerous photos of dignitaries, events, researchers, and heart surgery, we have this shot of the\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Starr-Edwards heart valve tree<\/span>. Written in ink on the back of the photo is this information: &#8220;Forming a pattern set-up, &#8220;tree&#8221;, from expendable wax patterns. This setup will be coated with mold material. Patterns removed by heat to form mold. Metal poured into ceramic mold to form castings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/ohsu-hca.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/heart-valves-grow-on-trees.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at OHSU.edu<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Oregon Health &amp; Science University Heart valves grow on trees At the time of the receipt of the\u00a0Howard J. Stroud Papers\u00a0(Accession 2007-015), we posted a short\u00a0notice\u00a0in this space. Beyond creating a basic inventory of the collection, not much processing has gone on in the ensuing months. 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