Do you think that transplants,limb reattachments and such compare to the old frankenstein stories?

Question

I mean I know Frankenstein was just a story but modern medical procedures such as limb reattachments and organ transplants are what is in the story. I just thought that it was a heck of coincedence that it was mentioned like 200 years ago by mary shelley in a fictional book. I just read it for the 1st time and I thought about am I weird to think about it or what?

Answer 1

A lot of things either written, painted, drawn, or film from many years ago are now have came into action.
Have a look at Leonardo Da Vinci born in 1452 and his work it is way a head of his time they thought he was crazy however he has sketches of of Helicopters and Bicycles and so on, he was a prominent Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician and writer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/
http://www.davincitandems.com/

As for Organ Transplants
Most accounts have the saints performing the transplant in the fourth century A.D., decades after their death; some accounts have them only instructing living surgeons who performed the procedure.

Timeline of successful transplants

* 1905: First successful cornea transplant by Eduard Zirm[6]

* 1954: First successful kidney transplant by Joseph Murray (Boston)

* 1966: First successful pancreas transplant by Richard Lillehei and William Kelly (Minnesota)

* 1967: First successful liver transplant by Thomas Starzl (Denver)

* 1967: First successful heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard (Cape Town, South Africa)

* 1970: First successful monkey head transplant by Robert White (Cleveland, U.S.A.)

* 1981: First successful heart/lung transplant by Bruce Reitz (Stanford)

* 1983: First successful lung lobe transplant by Joel Cooper (Toronto)

* 1986: First successful double-lung transplant (Ann Harrison) by Joel Cooper (Toronto)

* 1987: First successful whole lung transplant by Joel Cooper (St. Louis)

* 1995: First successful laparoscopic live-donor nephrectomy by Lloyd Ratner and Louis Kavoussi (Baltimore)

* 1998: First successful live-donor partial pancreas transplant by David Sutherland (Minnesota)

* 1998: First successful hand transplant (France)

* 2005: First successful partial face transplant (France)

* 2006: First successful penis transplant (China)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplant

Frankenstein first came out in (1931)
Then the Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Frankenstein then again in (1994)

Yes I must agree what we once thought amazing or even scary has came to life and into reality : )

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 2

Well, the comparison ends in transplanting limbs. But Frankie was a dead guy brought to life by Dr. Frankenstein using lightning bolts. In the real world they don't bring dead people back to the living. They only transplant artificial hearts, reattach a loose limb, fix your nose, give you a new face. All these to make one feel better and be able to mingle with the crowd once more.

Answer 3

No. Such things don't compare to the old Frankenstein stories, because with transplants; limb reattachments and such, the person is already alive, not being created.

Answer 4

My reminiscence might make those oldies appear like rookies to me different than for the shortcoming of colour. My greatest difficulty may well be that that they had could be CC. My listening to is as undesirable as my reminiscence whether a sturdy headset could make up for the undesirable sound high quality sometimes. i in my view favored the werewolf over Frankenstein. Dracula became fairly greater state-of-the-paintings than ripped out throats or lumbering giants. i did no longer guard the mummy in any respect, purely appeared like somebody after a foul twist of destiny with a foul bandaging activity. in case you detect any reruns, enable me understand. i understand i will appreciate them better than the trashy stuff they tutor in the present day.

Answer 5

I've worked in hospitals for almost 30 yrs. I've never seen lightning bolts,manically laughing "doctors" screaming "It's Alive, It's Alive"!!! I think it's kind of silly to attach all the Gothic gloom and doom melodrama to "modern" medicine.And no, your not weird

Answer 6

Frankenstein was not "just a story" He is still hard at work. Only name has changed --- now-- I challenge you to name his present name.

Answer 7

no; advanced medical procedure to sustain life is not anywhere near an attempt to creat life or reanimate the dead