Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first serious attempts to transplant organs by modern surgical techniques began in the early 1900s, when pioneering Dr. Charles Claude Guthrie, working at St. Louis' Washington University, created two-headed dogs by grafting. Today most of the surgical techniques have been perfected. Such surgeons as Stanford's Norman E. Shumway Jr. have developed grafting to the point where a dog with an unrelated dog's transplanted heart is up and hopping around within 24 hours, but it dies within three weeks...