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...oryxes from unfamiliar thorns, all cacti except giant saguaros have been removed, and the thorns of the saguaros have been clipped to a height above the reach of an oryx. Every day the zoo fills out a sheet for each animal, listing weather, temperature, food and water consumed, bowel movements, breeding (none so far). The little world herd seems to be doing fine, although Caroline, the female from London, suffered at first from the Arizona heat. Edith may be pregnant, but it did not happen in Phoenix. Until the oryxes are fully acclimated, the males and females are being kept...
...that replace its own supply, the body can function adequately without: the master pituitary gland in the brain, both adrenals, the thyroid, the thymus, spleen, pancreas, gall bladder, one hemisphere of the brain, the gullet, much of the stomach, anywhere from a few inches to several feet of small bowel, the colon, rectum, one lung, one kidney, one testicle, one ovary, one breast, the prostate gland...
...Johnstone concludes that only in special cases, such as surgery of the bowel, where microbes are an immediate threat, should antibiotics be given prophylactically, and then only for a short time. In other cases, he believes, antibiotics kill off the weaker germs and leave the field wide open for the more dangerous bacilli to multiply...
...between her esophagus and her windpipe, and the upper section of the esophagus ended before it reached her stomach. Further examination showed that there was no opening at the lower end of the baby's digestive tract. The X rays also suggested an abscess blocking a perforated small bowel. The big question at Salt Lake City's Latter-Day Saints Hospital was: Would little (4 lb.) Denise live long enough for a hastily assembled team of doctors to attempt an operation...
...Surgeon Robert Beveridge saw that her troubles were even worse than he had suspected. "Her organs looked as if someone had just wadded them in his fist and thrown them in there,'' he said. He drained off the abscess that was blocking the infant's small bowel. Next Beveridge sewed a tube into the wall of her stomach so that she could be fed. After that, he performed a colostomy -looped part of the colon (large bowel) outside the baby's body so that she could get rid of waste. Somehow, Denise was still breathing when...