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In the past, heart surgery — open or closed — lagged far behind surgical advances in other fields. This was partly due to the long-held belief that the heart was the seat of the soul; even today it retains something of a magic aura. Moreover, the surgeons were also restrained by the threats and warnings of their colleagues. For example, Billroth wrote in 1883, “Any surgeon who should ever attempt to stitch a wound of the heart can be certain of losing the respect of all his colleagues for ever”; and Paget wrote in 1896, “No new method and no new discovery can overcome the natural difficulties that attend a wound of the heart.”
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Theunissen, M.P. (1985). A Mechanical Heart-Lung Machine for Use in Man. In: Rupreht, J., van Lieburg, M.J., Lee, J.A., Erdmann, W. (eds) Anaesthesia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69636-7_27
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