French surgeon and biologist
He won the Nobel Prize for joining blood vessels that surgeons had never successfully sewn before. Then he built a mechanical heart with the world's most famous pilot, championed growing human tissue in glass, and ended his career designing eugenic policy for a collaborationist regime.
Alexis Carrel was born in France on 28 June 1873 and crossed the Atlantic to do most of his work in American laboratories. In 1912 he took the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing vascular suturing techniques that let surgeons reconnect severed vessels — the foundation of modern vascular surgery. With Charles Lindbergh he invented the first perfusion pump, a device meant to keep organs alive outside the body, though by the 1940s the design proved impractical and faded from use. He pushed forward work in tissue culture, transplantology, and thoracic surgery through the interwar…
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The democratic creed does not take account of the constitution of our body and of our consciousness. It does not apply to the concrete fact which the individual is.
[M]en cannot follow modern civilization along its present course, because they are degenerating. They have been fascinated by the beauty of the sciences of inert matter.
We must single out the children who are endowed with high potentialities, and develop them as completely as possible.
We have mentioned that natural selection has not played its part for a long while. That many inferior individuals have been conserved through the efforts of hygiene and medicine.
The existence of finality within the organism is undeniable. Each part seems to know the present and future needs of the whole, and acts accordingly.
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