Documents About Organ Transplants

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There have been documents about organ transplants all throughout history. Organ transplants have been in multiple myths and folktales,some even date back to the medieval times,but only recently has technology become advanced enough for organ transplants to become the norm.There are thousands of people who were on the brink of death that got a second shot at life because of organ transplants.Dr. Joseph Murray was a plastic surgeon who made the first organ transplant successful. In 1954 Ronald Herrick had given one of his kidneys to his identical twin Richard Herrick.One organ donor can save up to 8 lives.

Only a few organs can be transplanted from one body to another, the organs that can be transplanted are the heart,intestine,kidney,liver,lung,