A 1994 article in Scientific American credits Carrel with having initiated all major advances in modern surgery, including organ transplants. Apart from his newsworthy experiment which kept tissue from an embryonic chicken heart alive for decades in a Pyrex flask-a suspect achievement, since it has never been repeated-he had better grounds for renown than his status as a New York celebrity-scientist and doctor. Yet, during most of his long career at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, he was famous, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1938, along with his close friend Charles Lindbergh. The Voyage to Lourdes Philosophy Lovers! Click (1873–1944) is a name that few people outside the medical profession will recognize today.
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