• January 12 – The body of American psychologist Dr
James Bedford becomes the first to undergo
cryopreservation with the intent of future resuscitation. • May – Dr
René Favaloro performs the first
saphenous vein autograft in
coronary artery bypass surgery, at the
Cleveland Clinic in the United States. • August –
1967 Marburg virus outbreak in West Germany leads to identification of
Marburg virus. • October 14 –
Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig publishes her demonstration that mice can acquire immunity to the
Plasmodium berghei parasite by exposing the mice to
P. berghei sporozoites that have been inactivated by
X-ray irradiation. • December 3 – Dr
Christiaan Barnard and a team including his brother
Marius perform the first successful human
heart transplantation, at
Groote Schuur Hospital in
Cape Town,
South Africa, on
Louis Washkansky, who survives for eighteen days before dying of
pneumonia. • December 6 – Dr
Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first pediatric heart transplant, at
Maimonides Medical Center in
Brooklyn, United States, on a 19-day-old infant, who survives for six hours. •
Thomas Starzl performs the first successful human
liver transplantation, at the
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. • First use, in a case of
myocardial infarction, of the
intra-aortic balloon pump invented by Dr
Adrian Kantrowitz and his brother
Arthur. •
Neurosurgeons
Jean Talairach and Gabor Szikla create the
Talairach coordinates for
brain mapping. •
Charles Kelman introduces
phacoemulsification for
cataract surgery. •
St Christopher's Hospice, the world's first purpose-built secular
hospice specialising in
palliative care of the
terminally ill, is established in
South London by
Cicely Saunders with the support of
Albertine Winner. ==Technology==