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What Role Did a Sausage Skin and an Enamel Bath Play in Making Kidney Transplants a Reality?
A sausage skin and an enamel bath helped make kidney transplants a reality. The first machine that he created to tryto around all those problems was an assemblage of sausage skins, anEnamel bath and the frame of a shot down german aircraft. And it's a real testament to the in ingenuity, i suppose, an that is, youknow, you're first forced to a brace in desperate situations, like when you are occupied by nancy forces.
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