Word: carrell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early as 1597, Gasparo Tagliacozzi of Bologna wrote with great insight that "the singular character of the individual entirely dissuades us from attempting this work in another person, for such is the force and power of individuality." Three centuries later, Charles Claude Guthrie and Alexis Carrel learned the wisdom of this judgment. With great virtuosity, they proved that organ grafts between animals were surgically possible. Guthrie even succeeded in grafting a second head onto a dog; more constructively, he and Carrel learned how to stitch together the ends of small, slippery blood vessels so that they would neither leak...