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Santorino Santonio
These guys are lightweights! Every single day,
for 30 years, I weighed myself, as well as
everything I ate and drank and everything I
released in the toilet. I noticed a gap between
the weight of what went in and what came
out. I deduced that the human body is
continually losing fluid—a major
development in medicine by any
measure. Pah!

Dr. Werner Forssmann
Let’s have a heart-to-heart. While
working as a hospital intern in 1929,
I slid a thin tube called a catheter into
a vein in my elbow all the way up to touch
my beating heart—something it was Kevin Warwick
forbidden to do. I got an amazing x-ray
picture for proof. I also got fired. A heart-warming tale, Forssmann. My turn
Researchers later developed cardiac now. I have a microchip embedded in
catheterization for heart surgery. the nerves of my left arm. Yes, I’m a cyborg,
working on connecting my nervous system
to the Internet. My research may help
doctors to find new ways to treat
nervous-system disorders, although the idea
of putting microchips in humans makes
some scientists a little… nervous.

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