Carrel Develops a Technique for Rejoining Severed Blood Vessels
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Biology, Biologists, Doctors, Physicians, Nurses
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, 20th & 21st Century European History, French History
- Geographical Location: France, Chicago
- Date: 1902
Article abstract: Carrel’s precise procedures for aseptically rejoining blood vessels increased the range of surgical procedures and contributed to the realization of organ transplantation.
Summary of Event
As Alexis Carrel noted in 1908, “the idea of replacing diseased organs by sound ones, of putting back an amputated limb or even of grafting a new limb on a patient having undergone an amputation, is doubtless very old.” Despite the antiquity of the desire, however, the dream remained unrealized until surgeons could restore circulation through...
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