Show Replacing The TIle Heart Scientists at the Atomic Energy Energy En En- ergy Commission have been quoted as saying they think machines can replace e the heart within ten years The key to such an artificial heart is a small atomic motor which would have an almost inexhaustible inexhaustible inexhaustible inex inex- supply of energy THE TilE MOTOR according to scientists would be placed in inthe inthe inthe the patients patient's abdomen and from there would provide the pumping pumping pump pump- ing function the heart normally performs Heart specialists testifying testifying testifying test test- in closed session of a aHouse aHouse aHouse House Appropriations subcommittee subcommittee subcommittee agreed with scientists that such a motor is feasible and likely in the near future Thus we are on the road to mechanization of the human body And it might be that before before before be be- fore too many years people willbe will willbe willbe be walking around with artificial artificial cial livers atomic motor hearts or transplanted hearts and other gadgets and mechanical de- de vices-literally vices wired for electronic electronic electronic elec elec- functioning so to speak BUT IN ALL this processor process process- or progress concerning the heart what provision is there for replacing or substituting for that which is the romantic romantic romantic roman roman- tic the intangible element inthe in inthe inthe the heart What will the scientists scientists scientists do about attractions of the opposite sex-or sex do they after all as we are told stem from the heart Are they as scientists might like to believe only chemical reactions One wouldn't like to think so in fact everyone deeply in love knows it isn't so Even if he is carrying someone someone some some- one else's heart |