Surgical history: everything you wanted to know
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Transplantation - The History of Organ Transplants
In Egypt there was a town inhabited with people who had no noses, an entire town. Transplanting teeth that was part of a dentist's offer to his customers is the first time body parts were put up for sale as transplants. Some pioneers thought you could transplant the youth of a young animal. One surgeon even thought there was something in cat's blood that could cure epilepsy.
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