
Transplant surgery: an eye-opening history
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Transfusions and the Myths of Transfusion and Transfusion Surgery
Historical things are always matters of processes. Until about the eighteenth century, you have this idea that people were sort of immutable souls. Their soul, their essence, was just that. It was an essence, a fundamental, immutable, indivisible essence. Now, that changes around the eighteenth century to a more modern idea of the self - which is for self as a composition. And we start to associate ourselves with our possessions for the first time when it comes to transplant surgery. In that period that that shows up in the shape of tooth transplants. If you were wealthy enough, and you valued your er smile enough, you could buy the tooth of a poor child. i think this
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