if pigs could...-take a look at the date!
Posted: Mon 06 Jul 2009 3:52 pm
by GeorgeThe2nd
Re: if pigs could...-take a look at the date!
Posted: Thu 09 Jul 2009 12:16 pm
by John Smith
Wow. For a 1914 article, that was really high-tech.
Re: if pigs could...-take a look at the date!
Posted: Thu 09 Jul 2009 3:05 pm
by Andrew MacLean
In the early years of the 20th century they were doing all sorts of animal experiments: bits of pig vein and artery were being grafted into human hosts as well as bits of eye.
Actually xenotransplantation goes back at least as far as the 17th Century; there was an operation in Russia in 1682 when a bone from a dog was grafted into a human host. I don't think that either the donor or the recipient survived.
Andrew