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When it became clear that the second kidney essentially met all Kolff’s expectations he had a series of four kidneys built, of the same type as the third kidney; that is kidneys with a metal frame and casters. They were finished at the beginning of 1944, and their photograph decorates the beginning of Kolff’s doctoral thesis (see Figure 7.1).
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Weisse AB. Turning bad luck into good: the alchemy of Willem Johan Kolff. Seminars in Dialysis, 1993; 6: 52–58. Weisse also relates how Snapper landed in New York. He left Amsterdam in 1938 so as not to come under a national socialist regime: he had been appointed as professor of internal medicine in 1919 when he was 30 years old! He landed in China at the Peiping Union Medical College. There he fell into the hands of the Japanese, but he was exchanged against a Japanese general who had fallen into the hands of the Dutch. He arrived in the United States where he was employed at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York from 1944 to 1952.
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van Noordwijk, J. (2001). Hibernation of the Kidney 1944–1945. In: Dialysing for Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0900-3_7
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