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For years, doctors have known that the urinary bladder, more than any other organ in the human body, possesses remarkable powers of regeneration, e.g., after removal of a diseased section, the bladder grows right over the incision to become intact. But until recently doctors did not know how to take...
Instead of a mold, which has to be removed in a second operation, the doctors used a three-by-four-inch. egg-shaped plastic bag. They removed B.C.M.'s diseased bladder, severing the ureters and the urethra where they entered the bladder, and put the inflated bag in its...
B.C.M. now had a perfectly healthy (although slightly smaller) new bladder. The plastic bag was deflated and, with its tubes, pulled out through the urethra and the incision without further surgery. Since the operation had not touched the small sphincter muscle that opens and closes the entrance to the urethra...
The camera moved in past the masked surgeon and his assistants to a closeup of an incision about 1½ inches long. The surgeon reached into the hole, drew out a lump, cut it off with four snips of a pair of surgical scissors. The two-inch lump was placed...
Sociologists and Justices have studied carefully the grave Southern threats that "Negro blood will boil into the gutters of Memphis." Even though many of these gruesome promises are designed merely to discourage radical de-segregation, some Southerners may feel pride-bound to fulfill their rash avowals. Particularly in rural areas...