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...liver proved to be separate, but in cutting the bridge dividing the two organs, no fewer than 75 minor vessels had to be cut, and their bleeding stanched. Separated at last, each twin had her own quartet working independently-and with welcome elbow room-to close the fibrous covering that encapsulates the liver. After 4 hrs. 40 min., it was over. As a final esthetic touch, the surgeons had divided the twins' common navel so that each girl, after skin grafting, would look normal-if she lived...
...traveling through the water, break open the cells in much the way that a depth charge can crack a submarine's hull, and the cell's contents-mostly water, protein, and fat or oil-spill out. The slurry is passed through a screen and centrifuge to remove fibrous material and insoluble carbohydrates. Then the protein is separated from the oil by commercial solvents, and dried. The result is a white, odorless, tasteless powder, which can be baked in bread or added to almost any food. Two ounces a day is enough to complete a man's diet...
...pottery. They sleep on the ground instead of in hammocks as most Brazilian primitives do. Their weapons are bows and arrows and stone axes. Their knives are sharp flakes of stone. They eat everything that they can find or kill in the jungle-fruit, insects, snakes, roots too fibrous for white men's stomachs. In times of plenty, they make fermented drinks and go on binges...
...answer is endocardial fibro-elastosis, a peculiar hardening of the inner lining of the heart, which has no known cause. The trouble is a growth of white fibrous tissue, which may reach a point where the heart is suddenly shut off. Adult victims usually have a history of congestive heart failure; children may have no symptoms at all. Though the disease seems to be rare, it is being recognized more and more-but still only after death. When Barbara was six, her pediatrician found a slightly enlarged heart. It was not unusual, nor was the small heart murmur that another...
...more dismayed by the sensational stories than Dr. Mario Stefanini of Boston's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, who had worked for two years to get the extract (an enzyme) from common molds. He has found that it dissolves the fibrous part of clots in animals and has tested its safety in 25 humans. But it will be two years, he estimates, before its value in relieving the symptoms of heart attacks and strokes can be shown. In any case it cannot reverse the original damage done by the clot. There is no assurance that the extract...