Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Louis Washkansky
Standard Name: Washkansky, Louis
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2-3 December 1967: Dr Christian or Christiaan Barnard of the...
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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.