| The moist tissue glistens under the lights of the televisioncamera. A surgeon s knife exposes the arteries, the veins, thefat cushions, the muscle itself of the human heart. We seemovement in waves and pulses. The raw life is hard to lookatmespecially when it is threatened not only by the diseasethat is damaging the heart, but also by the risk of the oper-ation. Less than one hundred yearsnature had set a limit: the heartthis rule was not respected, it waswould result.ago, surgeons thought thatwas not to be touched. If thought that instant death In 1896 Dr. Ludwig Rehn of Germany showed how toughthe human heart was. He closed a knife wound of the heart |
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