Blood, Medicine and Jehovah's Witnesses
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1971 The Heart - not just a pump
The Watchtower 1st March had a lengthy study article stating that (regardless of medical opinion) the heart was more than a pump for our blood. It was linked with the brain through sensory nerve endings and was the actual organ in which affections, motivations, desires and emotions were literally formed. (Page 133-135) Of course the organ transplant would therefore transfer these emotions, etc to the recipient. Serious "mental aberrations" in heart transplant patients were said to be likely caused by the transfusion. (Remember that then [1971] organ transplants were not allowed - they were still cannibalism)