Show substitution of heaxt heart worked only for time it Is not true that dr wallace al yater tater of georgetown university tool took the heart out of one animal and substituted it for the heart of another animal what he did was to insert a heart into the circulatory system of another animal leaving the animals own heart intact A transplanted heart stops beating during the transfer but resumes its rhythm when properly connected with the veins and arteries for a few days doctor raters transplanted heart functioned as a sort of auxiliary pump but after a week it disintegrated and ceased to beat it Is said that an organ can be transplanted from one part of an animal to another part as from the thorax to the neck but no one has yet succeeded in kepping keeping permanently alive vital organs that have been transplanted from one animal to another there Is something peculiarly personal about vital organs |