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There, last week, the twins lay on operating tables placed side by side. Under spinal anesthesia, Leonard watched the surgeons use a dermatome (which looks and sounds like a malignant electric shaver) to remove six strips of skin, each about 3 by 9 inches, from his thighs, and graft them on to Leo's left leg. It took 3½ hours...
...doctors who were caring for Pfc. Leo Kijowski at Brooke General Hospital in San Antonio well knew that skin from an identical twin is as good as a patient's own for repairing burns by skin graft. The trouble was that the doctors had no idea that Leo Kijowski, seared in a battlefield explosion on the Korean front, had such a handy relative...
Patient Kijowski had lain swathed in pressure bandages for seven weeks, when he overheard a conversation: a doctor was explaining to a patient in the next bed that skin from any donor can be used for temporary grafts, but that it eventually sloughs off. For a permanent graft, only unburned skin from the patient's own body will do-or, added the doctor, skin from an identical twin. "Doctor," interrupted Leo Kijowski, "I've got a twin...
Hailed as a great man and a boon to the nation, Lanza drank deep of fame-and promptly became intoxicated. He announced that he was preparing to graft new limbs on infantile-paralysis victims. Soon, he declared, he would show preliminary examples of similar radical grafts, including a goat with donkey's legs, a sheep with dog's legs, a chicken with a pigeon's head, a dove with rabbit's ears and a rabbit with dove's wings. No gonkey, shog, or picken turned up, but Lanza did give newsmen a brief, none...
While state officials were trying desperately to find out whom Goldberg was accusing, Cenedella publicly alleged that "a friend of mine in whom I have confidence said that he had paid graft to a high state official." Cenedella said he would appear before the committee the next day and name names. But the state's Attorney General, Francis E. Kelly, was too fast for Cenedella and announced that he was the "high state official...