Vertigo he/him Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 In the scene where MeLaan is healing Marasi, MeLaan uses her own matter to patch the hole in Marasi's intestine and side. When Wax learns what she is doing, he says something like, "Her body will reject it", before MeLaan explains she copied Marasi's DNA in order to avoid rejection. However, this raises the question: How did Wax know about a body rejecting a foreign organ. Because that was only discovered when transplants first became a possibility, and I'm reasonably sure they're not up to that yet. The only explanation I can think of is that he's previously tried to graft one of Wayne's finger onto someone else, knowing that Wayne could regrow it (that, or a similar operation). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRyan he/him Posted February 19, 2016 Report Share Posted February 19, 2016 "The more likely accounts of early transplants deal with skin transplantation. The first reasonable account is of the Indian surgeon Sushruta in the 2nd century BC, who used autografted skin transplantation in nose reconstruction, a rhinoplasty. Success or failure of these procedures is not well documented. Centuries later, the Italian surgeon Gasparo Tagliacozzi performed successful skin autografts; he also failed consistently with allografts, offering the first suggestion of rejection centuries before that mechanism could possibly be understood. He attributed it to the "force and power of individuality" in his 1596 work De Curtorum Chirurgia per Insitionem." Taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplantation#History It is not unlikely Scadrians had attempted transplants of different kinds throughout the years and noticed the "rejection" problem without fully understanding why. Most likely, this was Brandon's attempt to counter any "Hey! What about rejection!" complaints by having Wax bring up that scenario. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellingdwar he/him Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 I'd imagine medical science would have evolved much quicker if there had at some point been a doctor (or at least a willing participant) who was a Bloodmaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo he/him Posted February 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 Hmm, I agree. Bloodmakers would be ideal for testing medical theories on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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