They say that "a problem shared is a problem halved..."
I'm not too sure about that as last night I told my wife that my girlfriend was pregnant.
Heart surgeryIn 1896, the first successful surgery on heart muscle was performed on 10 Sep 1896, by Ludwig Rehn in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, who sutured a myocardial laceration - a 1.5-cm wound of the right ventricle - of a 22-yr-old man stabbed in a drunken brawl. Previously, suturing of the pericardium, a fluid sac surrounding the heart - but not a part of the heart proper - was successfully executed by Americans Henry C. Dalton on 6 Sep 1891 and Daniel Hale Williams on 9 Jul 1893. These operations took place at a time when the prevailing belief was of the inviolability of the heart. Rehn's achievement is regarded as a landmark for the beginning of cardiac surgery.« |
