The University of Cape Town is a major tertiary education institution in Cape Town, South Africa, located on the Rhodes Estate on the slopes of Devil's Peak. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College, and is the oldest university in South Africa. It is a member of the Association of African Universities, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, and the Adamastor Trust of Western Cape universities. University of Cape Town - Campus. The main teaching campus, known as the Upper Campus, i ...

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Christiaan Barnard (November 8, 1922 – September 2, 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon. He became famous for performing the world's first open heart transplant. Christiaan Barnard - Early life. Barnard was born and grew up in Beaufort West, South Africa. He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, did his internship and residency at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, and became a general practitioner in Ceres, a rural town in the Western Cape province. While practicing there in 1948, ...

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The heart (Latin cor) is a hollow, muscular organ that pumps blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions. The term cardiac means "related to the heart", from the Greek kardia (καρδια) for "heart". Heart - The human heart. Heart - Early development. The human embryonic heart (EHR) begins beating at approximately 21 days after conception, or five weeks after the last normal menstrual period (LMP), which is the date normally used to ...

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Barnard was born and grew up in Beaufort West, South Africa. He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, did his internship and residency at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, and became a general practitioner in Ceres, a rural town in the Western Cape province. While practicing there in 1948, he married a nurse, Aletta Louw. In 1951, he returned to Cape Town to work at two hospitals and complete his Masters degree, receiving that in 1953 from the University of Cape Town. From 1956, he attended the University of Minnesota to study surgery. While in Minneapolis he became involved in cardio ...

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On the Eastern slopes of Devil's Peak you will find the Rhodes Memorial, to Cecil Rhodes, and the University of Cape Town. From these vantages one can gaze down upon the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town and over the sandy Cape Flats towards Stellenbosch, Somerset West and the distant Boland mountains. Other landmarks on the Eastern slopes are Mostert's Mill, Groote Schuur Hospital and the Groote Schuur estate, including ...

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Heart - Structure. In the human body, the heart is normally situated slightly to the left of the middle of the thorax, underneath the sternum (breastbone). It is enclosed by a sac known as the pericardium and is surrounded by the lungs. In normal adults, its mass is 250-350 g, but extremely diseased hearts can be up to 1000 g in mass. It consists of four chambers, the two upper atria (singular: atrium< ...

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1967 in South Africa - December. 3 December - Professor Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town 1967 in South Africa - Unknown date. The Terrorism Act No 83 is passed Jozua François Naudé becomes the 2nd State President of South Africa ...

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The main teaching campus, known as the Upper Campus, is located on the slopes of Devil's Peak. This campus contains in a relatively compact site the faculties of Science, Engineering, Commerce, and most of the faculty of Humanities, as well as the residences Smuts Hall and Fuller Hall. Upper Campus is centered on Jameson Hall, the location for graduation and other ceremonial events, as well as many examinations. The original buildings and layout of Upper Campus were designed by JM Solomon and built between 1928 and 1930. Since that time, many more buil ...

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Heart - Early development. The human embryonic heart (EHR) begins beating at approximately 21 days after conception, or five weeks after the last normal menstrual period (LMP), which is the date normally used to date pregnancy. The human heart begins beating at a rate near the mother’s, about 75-80 beats per minute (bpm). It then accelerates linearly for the first month of beating, peaking at 165-185 bpm during the early 7th week, (early 9th week after the LMP). This acceleration is approximately 3.3 bpm per day, or about 10 bpm every three days, an in ...

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1987 in South Africa - January. 1 January - South African Defence Force servicemen are attacked in Alexandra, Johannesburg and at least one injured 3 January - Three people are injured when a limet mine explodes at the corner of Jeppe and Delvers Streets in Johannesburg 8 January - At the AECI plant, a policeman is shot at and in the skirmish that followed, two policemen and one civilian is injured 9 January - A bomb explodes at the OK Bazaars, a national supermarket chain, in Elo ...

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Naki was selected by Robert Goetz of the Medical Faculty, while working as a gardener, to work in the clinical laboratories, where he helped by caring for the laboratory animals; Goetz first asked him to help him hold a giraffe while he operated. He soon became involved in surgical procedures in the laboratories, including anaesthetics, as well as post-operative care for the animals. Despite his lack of formal education, his technique and capacity was recognised, and he received special permission to continue research in the laboratories. However, he was never able to train as a doctor, and was barred from the whites- ...

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Despite the fact that the early history of Cape Town is in general well-documented, some issues relating to the origin of the name "Devil's Peak" remain to be settled. In following the various arguments, it is important to remember that the Cape was a Dutch colony between 1652 and the end of the 18th Century and that all the early names for geographical features were in Dutch. Devil's Peak was originally known as Windberg, and supposedly gets its current name from the folk-tale about a Dutch man called Jan van Hunks, a prodigious pipe smoker ...

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The heart of fish have only two chambers: one atrium and one ventricle. In fish, the system has only one circuit. The blood pumps through the gills and on to the the body tissues without returning to the heart. Amphibians and reptiles have a three-chambered heart: two atria and one ventricle. Blood from both the body and the lungs is pumped into the single ventricle, where unoxygenated and oxyge ...

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Near Rhodes Memorial, some of the lower slopes of Devil's Peak are artificially maintained as savanna, and some herds of eland, wildebeest and zebra are kept there. In the 1930s, a few Himalayan Tahrs escaped from a zoo on the slopes of Devil's Peak and bred until their population on the Table Mountain range was over 700. A culling programme may by now have eliminated them. Around Rhodes Memorial there were also some feral deer of European origin, but these may also have been eliminated by now. ...

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See cardiac arrest for emergencies involving the heart If a person is encountered in cardiac arrest (no heartbeat), cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) should be started, and help called. If an automated external defibrillator is available, this device may automatically administer defibrillation if this is indicated. ...

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In 2004, 20 573 students were enrolled, of which 50% (10235) were described as "White" and 27% (5615) were described as "African"; 50% of students were male. 3903 degrees and diplomas were awarded to students in December 2003. There were 4 300 staff in 2003, 44% academic and 56% administrative and support. ...

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The organisation of the University is defined in the Statute of the University of Cape Town (gazetted in 2002) in accordance with the Higher Education Act of 1997. Before 2002 the organisation was defined in other laws in essentially the same format. The titular head of the University is the Chancellor; this is a ceremonial position without executive power. The primary role of the Chancellor is to confer degrees on behalf of the University, and to represent the University to the rest of the world. The current Chancellor is Ms Graça ...

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The world's first open heart transplant operation was performed on 3 December 1967 in an operation lasting nine hours and using a team of thirty persons. The patient, Louis Washkansky, was 55 years old and suffering from diabetes and heart disease. The transplant heart came from a young woman, Denise Darvall, killed in a road accident. Washkansky survived the operation and lived for eighteen days, before succumbing to pneumonia ...

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There are a lot of easy walks on the lower slopes of the mountain. A popular short hike is from Rhodes Memorial to the King's blockhouse. The only safe ascent of the peak is from the Saddle, between the peak and Table Mountain. There are three routes to reach the Saddle: from Tafelberg Road on the city side, up Newlands Ravine from Newlands Forest, or the upper contour path from Mowbray Ridge and Minor Peak. Once on the Saddle, a straightforward path climbs directly to the summit. The 360 de ...

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Heart - Heartbeat. Smaller animals have faster heartbeats. This is evident within a species as well, as the young beat their hearts faster than the adults. The Gray Whale's heart beats 9 times per minute, Harbour Seal 10 when diving, 140 when on land, elephant 25, human 70, sparrow 500, shrew 600, and hummingbird 1,200 when hovering. The earthworm has a series of multiple primitive hearts. Heart - Food use. The hearts of cattle, sheep, pigs and certain fowl are consumed ...

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