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...that had had to be amputated. So Dr. Kelly had to try a triple play-from right thigh to left stump, later from there to the right foot. This kept Kilpatrick in a grotesquely distorted and uncomfortable position. And the flap died in the first stage. A second try, abdomen to wrist to foot, failed in the final stage. With his patient still game ("I hated, for Dr. Kelly's sake, to have those flaps go bad"), the surgeon tried again...
...last week. It was midmorning. and crowds milled through the busiest shopping area of Cyprus' third-largest city (pop. 21,100). Five pistol shots rang out and, just ten yards from the Hereon's box office, a man slumped to the sidewalk, wounded in face, chest, abdomen and hand. The gunman fired a sixth shot and disappeared among the shoppers. The victim, who died a short while later, was a man especially disliked by EOKA terrorists: William Dear, 61-year-old police interrogator of the Special Branch. He was the first Englishman killed since the Greek Cypriot underground...
...morning in mid-March. Mrs. Gladys Lowman, 31, wife of a roofer in Franklin, Ohio, awoke with what she called a bad stomachache. Drugs brought no relief all day. An orange-sized lump soon began to bloat her abdomen. When her doctor ordered emergency surgery. Dr. Walter A. Reese at Ohio's Middletown Hospital operated at once. He found a hemorrhage in a kidney that had apparently been displaced from birth. Swiftly, because the patient otherwise would have bled to death, Surgeon Reese removed the kidney. Despite massive transfusions, Mrs. Lowman lost so much blood during the operation that...
...poignant phenomenon of false pregnancy-pseudocyesis-survived such odds of matter over mind. Pseudocyesis is older than Hippocrates, has affected subjects from seven to 79. Modern medicine knows it as a mental condition, arising from emotional needs so intense that they lead to suppression of menstruation, distention of the abdomen, enlargement of the breasts, and morning nausea. Most cases involve psychotic women with a feeble grasp of reality. But this patient was not psychotic. Her perceptions were normal; she knew all along that the operation had barred her from reproduction...
Under hypnosis, the patient was told by Psychiatrist Kelsey to put his left arm across his abdomen and lock it. He did-so successfully that attendants could not move it. Kelsey added: Keep the arm there until the command "unlock it" is given. Surgeon Barron attached the abdominal flesh to the wrist, and the patient kept his arm in place for three weeks while the graft took. The next stage was tougher: the graft was cut loose from the abdomen, and the arm was laid across the drawn-up right foot. Again, the same commands. After plastic surgery under...