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...other matters, Gillies is a perfectionist. He has no use for the cancer surgeon who removes a woman's breast and suggests no replacement. Gillies makes an incision from below the armpit, across the abdomen, around the navel and back again. With the flesh thus released, he constructs a tube pedicle flap,* and as he brings it around to the side of the missing breast, the inside-out navel (concave to convex) takes the place of the nipple. After this surgery, a woman has an abdominal scar but no deformity. In some patients, as a result of an embryonic...
...long and half an inch wide. This is the species whose heads are occasionally sold as active ingredients of "reducing pills." They may be slightly effective by causing general debility (it is not true that tapeworms increase appetite), but a society of tapeworms coiled in the abdomen cannot improve the figure...
Reddish and only ¼in. long, the fire ant has a peculiar talent: it chews a slit in the skin of its victim, lifts the skin with its mandibles, curves its abdomen under its body and injects a dose of fluid which causes fiery pain, raises angry welts, and may form a pocket of pus. Victims highly sensitive to ant poison may be hospitalized for weeks; a baby in New Orleans was killed by the ants...
...boys as they dived to earth. One youth's left leg was almost severed above the knee. He was saved from bleeding to death when a quick-thinking teacher made a tourniquet from a rag and a chunk of the fallen metal. Another youngster's abdomen was ripped open by a piece of flying metal. When the debris settled and the screams were stilled, three boys were dead or dying, 78 others hurt. Dead also: the airliner's four-man crew and Scorpion Pilot Owen. Scorpion Radarman Adams parachuted out, landed badly burned and unable to contribute...
...clear, remote cry very like a baby crying in the next room, but close below our heads." When a nurse returned to the room, disappointed at having missed the event, the infant obliged with another cry so loud that a doctor put his ear on the mother's abdomen to confirm beyond doubt that the cry came from the womb. The baby (a boy) was delivered safely...