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The year is and deep within the infant ward at Johns Hopkins a month-old baby named Eileen Saxon gasps for breath under an oxygen tent.

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Her skin is a deep blue, her lips a dangerous purple. She has a heart condition—a complex combination of four congenital defects in the structure of her heart—preventing proper blood flow to the lungs and slowly starving her body of oxygen. The doctors at her bedside call it tetralogy of Fallot. And they know there is no treatment for their baby girl.

Which makes it even more surprising when a cardiovascular surgeon named Dr. Alfred Blalock tells them he can save her life. Through it all, Blalock consults a man standing at his shoulder who gives careful instruction in a quiet voice, telling Blalock where to cut and how long to make the incision, where to place the sutures and in which direction.

The operation comes to a dramatic and successful conclusion as little Eileen turns from blue to pink before their eyes. The medical community names this miracle the Blalock-Taussig shunt, the surgeon sharing credit with cardiologist Helen B. Taussig, who first conceived of such a procedure.