Tag: inventors

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Stabbing His Own Heart

Werner Theodor Otto Forssmann, a German
surgical trainee in 1929, is famous for an experiment he performed on
himself. Without any direction, he put himself under local anesthetic,
incised a hole in his arm and pushed a catheter all the way up his limb
and shoved it into his heart. He performed the procedure on himself with
two feet of cable after which he walked to the X-ray room. He was fired
after this stunt, but was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Medicine for
developing a procedure that allowed for cardiac catheterization. (Source)

😳. That is the last way I would have guessed the cath was invented. Wow.

There is a fine line between crazy and genius.

Maybe I should start a tag for people that experiment on themselves??