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From: moroney@jon.DEC (Mike Moroney)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Handedness is where the heart is
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Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 13:04:56 EST
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>> >The heart is on the left side of the body.  I had heard that in swordfighting
>> 
>> The heart is NOT on the left side of the body...
>> ... (the left ventricle does most of the pumping)
>> -- Mike Moroney
>
>So a wound on the left side is still more damaging, and still causes quick
>evolution.
>
>   Norman Diamond

I never said that.  The right side of the heart is equally as important as the
left.  The path that the blood takes in a complete circuit goes through the
heart twice - once through the right half, and once through the left half.
Either half is just as vital as the other.
  It would be a VERY rare person to survive a sword wound to the heart ANYWAY,
no matter which half was hit, especially with medicine in the advanced state it
was in during the Bronze Age.  There are also several other areas in the body
where a sword wound would be fatal, so why single out the heart?

"There's a madness to my method."			Mike Moroney
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