Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thorndike's methods are dramatic, depend considerably on his ingenuity in designing tests. To determine the effect of adults' prejudices on their attitudes, he asked them how much money they would demand to eat a quarter of a pound of human flesh. To prove that heredity was more important than environment, he tested 50 twins, demonstrated that they were less affected by differences in training than ordinary brothers and sisters...
...than wedlock. A year ago Clara Howard, 13, emptied a lapful of peanut shells into an open fire. Her apron caught fire and she was hospitalized with terrible first degree burns. When she was discharged she had no skin left on her torso, arms and neck. Scars held the flesh of her arms to the flesh of her sides. She could not turn her head because the lower part of her chin had grown to her chest...
...best kind of skin graft which grows on denuded flesh is skin taken from some other part of the same body. Clara Howard, however, cannot endure the further shock of such autogenous grafting from her unburned legs. So Professor Robert Emmet Moran of Georgetown University undertook something utterly new in restorative surgery...
...Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner, 16, who volunteered, Dr. Moran made two parallel slices from the left armpit straight down the side to the left hip. This week Dr. Moran will separate the strip of skin between the incisions from the underlying flesh and clip the long edges together to make a tube attached at one end to the boy's armpit, the other to his hip. As the bared flesh heals, new blood vessels will form in the tube of flesh -blood vessels which will nourish it during the next and more difficult stage...
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...