SCIENCE - BARNARD Christiaan (1922 - 2001) - Photographic portrait with autograph signature
Photographic portrait (July 1968) with autograph signature of the South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation on the 3rd December 1967. As a young doctor experimenting on dogs, Barnard developed a remedy for the infant defect of intestinal atresia. His technique saved the lives of ten babies in Cape Town and was adopted by surgeons in Britain and the United States. (11 x 16 cm).
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