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Francis Daniels Moore
(17 Apr 1913 - 24 Nov 2001)
American surgeon whose pioneering work in various experimental surgical techniques included making the world's first successful organ transplant (a kidney between identical twins), and the use of radioactive isotopes to research how the body's fluids and chemicals change during surgery.
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Science Quotes by Francis Daniels Moore (2 quotes)
The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.
— Francis Daniels Moore
From a lecture. Quoted in 'The Best Hope of All', Time (3 May 1963)
The fundamental act of medical care is assumption of responsibility. Surgery has assumed responsibility for disease which is largely acute, local or traumatic. This is responsibility for the entire range of injuries and wounds, local infections, benign and malignant tumors, as well as a large fraction of those pathologic processes and anomalies which are localized in the organs of the body. The study of surgery is a study of these diseases, the conditions and details of their care.
— Francis Daniels Moore
Metabolic Care of the Surgical Patient (1959), Preface. In Loyal Davis, David C. Sabiston, Jr., David C. Sabiston, Frederick Christopher, Davis-Christopher Textbook of Surgery (1972), 19.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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