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Organ Transplants (1818)
The first major organ transplant happened in 1954, but its arrival was predicted more than a century earlier. In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein, organs are kept alive outside of a human body before they’re used—a pre-requisite for modern-day organ transplants.