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Characteristically, Dr. Bundesen went into action with a white mouse into whose abdomen he injected fluid taken from the blood of one of the dead babies. In three hours the mouse died, a press photographer on hand to record the scene. From Manhattan, Dr. Bundesen ordered 15 monkeys for further experimentation. They got out of their cages in his office and had to be baited with peanuts and netted with wire wastebaskets. This episode was also photographed...
This next step will make the boy and girl for a time virtual Siamese twins. Dr. Moran will cut the upper end of the tube of skin free from John's armpit and sew the end into the flesh of Clara's scarred abdomen. For five weeks the children will lie bandaged immovably together while John's blood nourishes the tube of flesh from one end until gradually-if the operation is successful-Clara's blood joins in nourishing it from the other. This it will presumably do without difficulty because John and Clara have...
When the graft attaches itself to Clara, Dr. Moran will sever the tube of skin from John's hip, swing the tube across Clara's abdomen, and fix the end in her flesh. When that operation heals, Dr. Moran will perform the final stage of the graft. He will slit the sausage-like tube from end to end, spread it flat upon the girl's abdomen to attach itself soundly...
...Colds, Influenza, and Pneumonia"; February 13, John Rock '14, assistant in Gynaecology, "Menstrual Disorders and the Menopause" (for women only); February 20, F. Dennette Adams, instructor in Medicine, "Overweight and Underweight"; February 27, Channing Frothingham '02, Overseer, and Richard H. Miller '04, clinical professor of Surgery, "Pain in the Abdomen...
...respirators consists of a copper hood which fits over the patient's abdomen from hips to ribs; the other of an aluminum hood which covers the entire torso from hips to collar bone. Intermittent air suction in the abdominal hood expands and contracts a patient's lungs by forcing his diaphragm up and down. Similar suction in the torso hood compels breathing by moving both the diaphragm and the chest wall...