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
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.
running fitness exercise
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.
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.