That's true, although it is kind of amazing the amount of punishment the human body can take and keep on trucking. Before antiseptic, people survived gunshot and stab wounds with basically no treatment.
There's skeletal remains of a neanderthal with injuries that suggest he was deaf in one ear, blind in both eyes, was missing an arm, but died of old age. Then you hear stories from the Victorian era where someone got a fatal infection from a small cut. Though, to argue against your point, there's a huge difference between closing wounds and organ transplants.
That's true, although it is kind of amazing the amount of punishment the human body can take and keep on trucking. Before antiseptic, people survived gunshot and stab wounds with basically no treatment.
There's skeletal remains of a neanderthal with injuries that suggest he was deaf in one ear, blind in both eyes, was missing an arm, but died of old age. Then you hear stories from the Victorian era where someone got a fatal infection from a small cut. Though, to argue against your point, there's a huge difference between closing wounds and organ transplants.