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May 05, 1968 - Wife of the Man with a new Heart.: Britain;s first hear transplant patient was fully conscious and his condition was entirely satisfactory yesterday, it was stated at the National Heart Hospital, Marylebone. The patient, Mr. Frederick West, 43, a contracts manager, of Leigh-on-Sea is the fourth to have received a new heart within a week. Later his wife, Josephine visited him and watched through a glass screen as he took a drink of water through a straw. Photo shows Mrs. Josephine West, wife of Britain's first heart transplant patient, pictured with her 25-year-old son, Michael, in their garden yesterday

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25-year-old Conscious Contracts Entirely Fully Hear Josephine Leigh-on-sea Marylebone Satisfactory Stated Transplant Watched

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