lourdes 5

In 1912... 

kreeg Alexis Carrel de Nobelprijs voor de Geneeskunde... 

voor zijn onderzoek naar directe vaatanastomose, waardoor het mogelijk werd organen met hun eigen aan- en afvoerend bloedvaten te transplanteren.

In 1902... 

Alexis Carrel went from being a skeptic of the visions and miracles reported at Lourdes to being a believer in spiritual cures after experiencing a healing of Marie Bailly that he could not explain.

The Catholic journal Le nouvelliste reported that she named him as the prime witness of her cure. Alexis Carrel refused to discount a supernatural explanation and steadfastly reiterated his beliefs, even writing the book 'The Voyage to Lourdes' describing his experience, although it was not published until four years after his death. 

This was a detriment to his career and reputation among his fellow doctors, and feeling he had no future in academic medicine in France, he emigrated to Canada with the intention of farming and raising cattle. After a brief period, he accepted an appointment at the University of Chicago and, two years later, at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research.

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