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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Louis Washkansky
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2-3 December 1967
Dr
Christian or Christiaan Barnard
of the
Groote Schuur
hospital in
Cape Town, South Africa
, performed the world's first heart-transplant operation; the patient,
Louis Washkansky
, survived for eighteen days.