Helen Brooke Taussig - Watertown, MA - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

The grave of Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig is marked by a simple slate headstone which is inscribed:

Helen Brooke Taussig was born in in Cambridge, MA on May 24, 1898. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1921 and received a M.D. degree the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine on 1927.

She became the director of the pediatric department at Johns Hopkins where she gained great acclaim for he work on solving anoxemia commonly called "blue baby syndrome", a condition that caused the deaths of newborn infants due a partial blockage of the pulmonary artery and/or hole between the ventricles of the infant's heart. Together with surgeons Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas they developed a surgical method to correct the defect using what is now known as the Blalock-Taussig-Thomas shunt.

She co-authored the book To Heal the Heart of a Child: Helen Taussig, M.D. and wrote many scientific articles and textbooks on the congenital malformations of the heart. She was the subject of the 2004 Home Box Office movie Something the Lord Made, Dr. Taussig was portrayed by Mary Stuart Masterson.

Books by Helen Brooke Taussig

The Surgical Treatment Of Malformations Of The Heart In Which There is Pulmonary Stenosis or Pulmonary Atresia. (The Dawn of Cardiac Surgery). (1945)

Congenital Malformations of the Heart (1948)

World Trends In Cardiology: I - Cardiovascular Epidemiology; II -Cardiovascular Surgery - Selected Papers From 2nd World Congress Of Cardiology (1956)

Congenital Malformations of the Heart, Volume I: General Considerations: Second Edition (1960)

Congenital Malformations of the Heart, Volume II: Specific Malformations: Second Edition (1961)

American scientist : Autumn 1969, Vol 57, No.3 [Panta Rhei, and so flow our nerves; Death from lightning & the possibility of living again; Palynology & environmental history during the Quaternary Period; The new logic; Formal

To Heal the Heart of a Child: Helen Taussig, M.D.