Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Neethling Barnardwas a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionDoctor
Date of Birth8 November 1922
Christiaan Barnard quotes about
heart sleep animal
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.
heart men odds
For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.
heart worms transplants
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.
heart individuality brain
The individual is the brain, not the heart.