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Human body

The brain cannot feel pain 

Brain tissue has no pain receptors. That is why surgeons can operate on an awake patient, asking them to talk or play guitar to make sure nothing vital is cut.

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Firsts

The first vaccine came from cowpox

In 1796 Edward Jenner used cowpox to protect against smallpox. The Latin for cow, vacca, is why we call it vaccination at all.

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The first heart transplant patient lived 18 days

Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant in Cape Town in December 1967. The surgery worked; pneumonia, worsened by anti-rejection drugs, did not.

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