Word: kijowski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although doctors cannot yet be sure whether the operation will be a permanent success, they can point to some encouraging, if rare, precedents in recent years. In 1952 Army Private Leonard Kijowski donated skin to twin brother Leo (TIME. Feb. 4, 1952), and both made good recoveries. Last summer Major Cox treated an airman suffering from third-degree burns over 45% of his body area, saved his life when he chanced to spot his twin brother wandering around the hospital corridor...
...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...
...Army checked its records and found that, sure enough, Twins Leo and Leonard Kijowski of Ford City, Pa. had been drafted together, trained together and shipped together to Korea. Leonard Kijowski, still serving up front with the 32nd Infantry, was ordered home, to temporary duty at Brooke Hospital...
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