Word: gibbons
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Matching these rare forward steps in dentistry was Dr. John J. Fitz-Gibbon's method of covering cleft palates with gold plates. Dr. Fitz-Gibbon, who practices...
...Fitz-Gibbon solves the problem by taking a soft wax cast of the defective mouth. He makes a thin gold plate for the hard palate and a flattened, hollow gold bulb for the soft palate. He solders these together and anchors them to the upper teeth with lugs. When uttering words, the person who wears this device imperceptibly clenches his throat muscles. For practice he utters the word "giggle." This shuts off the upper pharynx. In inhaling, the throat is relaxed as in normal individuals...
People with cleft palates clench their nostrils and arch their tongues in effort to make their enunciation intelligible. Dr. Fitz-Gibbon breaks them of those habits by putting thimbles in their nostrils, guide wires in their mouths. Girls with cleft palates are harder to treat than boys, said he, "because girls are ordinarily protected from the rude mockery of other children. Consequently they are apt to take pride in their funny way of talking...
...virtuoso of arboreal acrobatics, the gibbon is a small, flat-faced ape which inhabits southeastern Asia. It is a "key animal" in primate evolution because it is more at ease on two legs than any other ape or monkey, because of its cerebral affinities with man and the great anthropoid apes, and because of its well-developed social and monogamic habits. Yet less is known of the gibbon in its wild state than about any other primate of comparable importance. Therefore Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson. N. Y.) have organized an expedition to study this little...
Their span of life is unknown, but a single white-handed gibbon has already lived over thirty years in the Philadelphia zoo. Only two gibbons have bred in zoos of Europe or America...