Historical story

Heart transplants in 1000 BC?

That's right, the Celts always come up with something impossible to explain, be it Stonehenge, the druid sciences or many others. Maybe that's why historians don't like to study them very much, because it's not possible to explain everything about them.

One of these mysteries is a document written around 1000 AD, but which refers to a legend that must have been at least 2,000 years old. This legend refers to a queen, Boadicea, who was a great heroine as she had the ability to bear many, many children, several at once. This was because he bathed while pregnant in the cup of life. It so happens that one day, at the advanced age of 30, her heart stops beating. Luckily a druid is by her side and soon takes action.

First he makes her breathe mists so she doesn't feel pain, then he takes a slave and makes her breathe the same mists, then he cuts the slave's chest, takes out her heart, cuts the queen's chest and takes out the heart her. Finally he puts the slave's heart in the queen, sews it with golden threads washed in that same vessel of life, casts small rays in the heart and it begins to beat again, for in the end he closes the queen's chest with the same golden threads.

What is spectacular in this narrative is not simply the idea of ​​transplantation, which as far as I know has never appeared in any other culture before that, but the technique, the knowledge that it was necessary to end the pain, that it was necessary to sew, that this sewing had to be done. with hygiene and don't ask me how, it was necessary to shoot some rays (shock) in the heart for it to start beating again.

Some say that swallowing the mists to not feel pain is very similar to our anesthesia today, I think it's an exaggeration to say, but the idea alone is genius for a period when the Greeks had no idea what was written. Saying whether such an operation was carried out or not is very difficult, of course they would never accept that this would be possible until proven with great certainty, but some indications say yes.

First the death of the slave, in a culture of the time it was more than common for the slave to die to save the queen. Second, 1000 years before that, that is, 2000 BC. , the Egyptians already performed operations on the brain, the Incas also learned to perform operations on the brain, of course most of them went wrong, but some went well, and we have at least 3 cases, between Egyptians and Incas, that the operation on the brain it was a success.

But in the case of the brain, you can know why a hole needs to be made in the skull, there was never any evidence that the Celts could have actually performed such an operation.


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