Transplant Surgery Human beings have suffered from illnesses since they first appeared on the earth about million
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Transplant Surgery Human beings have suffered from illnesses since they first appeared on the earth about million years ago. Throughout most of this time, they knew little about how the body works or what causes disease. Medicine has made great progress in the last several hundred years. Today, it is possible to cure, control, or prevent hundreds of diseases. People live longer than they did in the past as a result of new drugs, machines, and surgical operations. Medical progress in the control of infectious diseases, improvements in health care for mothers and children, and better nutrition, hygiene, and living conditions have given people a longer life expectancy. Scientists and doctors continually search for better ways of fighting disease, they discover transplant surgery. Transplant Surgery is the transfer of a tissue or an organ from one person to another or from one site to another in the same person. The history of...


