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Dedicating his life to medical research, Carl H. Lenhart helped make Cleveland a pioneer in the field of surgery. Lenhart participated in many Cleveland-based research projects, including studies on shock and hemorrhaging, the kidney and treating goiter, an enlargement of the thyroid gland. With Samuel O. Freedlander, Lenhart paved the way for open-heart surgery when they worked out the physiology of the pneumothorax, an accumulation of air or gas in the lung and heart area caused by trauma or injury. Born in 1880, Lenhart received his medical degree from Western Reserve University Medical School in 1904. He taught at the university and was head of surgery departments at both the school and St. Luke's Hospital. During his career he also served as chief of City Hospital's surgical division and director of Lakeside Hospital's surgical division. |
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